Skip to content

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By... Surgeon. With an Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By... Surgeon. With an Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By... Surgeon. With an Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell

by PARK, Mungo

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
See description
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$1,071.24
Or just A$1,032.28 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
A$52.59 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 5 to 10 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799.. Second edition. 4to. xxviii, 372, xcii, (2) pp. Contemporary full speckled calf sometime rebacked, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, early armorial bookplate of a William Cumming to the pastedowns. Portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and 3 folding maps plus two pages of music to the rear. Very good. Proposed by his patron Sir Joseph Banks, Park was charged by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger, four previous expeditions having failed. He succeeded in reaching the river and following it for about 100 miles before exhaustion and lack of supplies following a four month imprisonment forced him to turn back. He returned to Africa in 1805 for another attempt, during which he was killed. "Park's Travels.. has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the [Africans], have remained of lasting value... Park did not solve the problem of the Niger... but he set the further exploration of the region in the right direction..." (Printing and the Mind of Man 253).

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Bow Windows Bookshop GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
43965
Title
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By... Surgeon. With an Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell
Author
PARK, Mungo
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author
Date Published
1799.
Keywords
Travel Africa

Terms of Sale

Bow Windows Bookshop

14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

About the Seller

Bow Windows Bookshop

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2006
Lewes, East Sussex

About Bow Windows Bookshop

Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Raised Band(s)
Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Calf
Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
Rebacked
having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...

This Book’s Categories

tracking-