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Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Bd 1 u. 3 (v. 3).

[Nile; Africa Exploration]; Bruce James, of Kinnaird; Murray, AlexanderBiblio.com

TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE IN THE YEARS 1768 1770 1771 1772 AND 1773. . . with ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaird Esq. F.R.S. Author of TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE In the Years 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 & 1773.

179033833Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G.GJ. and J. Robinson et al and Printed by George Ramsay and Company for Archibald Constable and Company 1790; 1808. 6 volumes. The First Edition Edinburgh imprint sometimes called â€œthe best editionâ€ Cox with the First Edition of Murray's fine and important work on Bruce. Engraved title vignettes in all volumes. Vol. I with illustrated header on the dedication to the King and with 53 very finely engraved plates and maps and charts including 3 very large folding maps. The Murray volume with an additional 22 engraved plates including a portrait frontispiece of Bruce and two large folding maps at the end of the volume. A total of 75 plates and 5 large folding maps. 4to 300 x 240 mm. with the half-titles in vols. !-!V very handsomely bound in very handsome contemporary half polished calf over marbled paper covered boards. The spines with raised bands are gilt ruled and decorated with gilt lettering on red morocco labels original endleaves end-leaves and with a fine antique engraved armorial plate. Early ownership inscription to title-page and a fine early armorial bookplate. The Bruce lxxxv 535; viii 718; viii 759; viii 695; xiv 230 3 large folding maps index errata pp. The Murray xiii 5044 ads. pp 22 engraved plates and maps. A fine and desirable set in scarce contemporary bindings the paper fresh and clean and the text-blocks as solid as could be the bindings are very handsome withminor evidence of use or age at the extremities a bit of tenderness to the hinges of a few volumes but these are still sturdy and strong and the folding maps are in excellent condition. HIGHLY IMPORTANT EARLY EXPLORATION INTO AFRICA AND A RARE EDITION IN FULL CONTEMPORARY CALF WITH ORIGINAL SPINE PANELS AND WITHOUT REPAIRS. A cornerstone to any collection of Africana this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over A hundred year period. This set with the added murray volume rarely encountered in matching binding as here. With time on his hands and at the urging of a friend Bruce composed this account of his travels on the African continent including comments on the history and religion of Egypt an account of Indian trade a history of Abyssinia and other such material. Although Bruce would not be confused with "a great scholar or a judicious critic. few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller" DNB. "The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography" Cox II p. 389. Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile and though he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source. The account of his travels was written twelve years after his journey and without reference to his journals which gave critics grounds for disbelief but the substantial accuracy of the book has since been amply demonstrated. James Bruce traveled to Egypt in 1768 accompanied by the Italian artist Luigi Balugani. They spent five years in Upper Egypt Abyssinia and in the exploration of the Nile. With the exception of the French surgeon Poncet no European had visited Abyssinia in over 150 years so Bruce's account was of unique importance in providing valuable information on the region to Europeans. The plates based on his own and Balugani's drawings include maps botanical and zoological specimens antiquities artifacts and plans of monuments. A cornerstone to any collection of Africana this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over a hundred year period. J. Ruthven for G.GJ. and J. Robinson et al and Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company hardcover

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis8 635,00 $US≈ 7 306,07 €

Bruce James of KinnairdABAA

Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768.1773

179052509Edinburgh: J. Ruthvan for G. G. J. and J. Robinson London 1790. First edition published later in London the same year; 5 volumes 4to engraved vignette title page in each volume 58 engraved charts battle plans and plates 3 engraved folding maps 7 typographic pages of Ethiopic characters between pp. 400 and 401 of the first volume and the list of plates at the back of vol. V which is usually lacking; contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in calf gilt-lettered spine; a few marginal tears neatly repaired light occasional foxing but in all a very good sound and absolutely complete copy with the requisite half-titles in each volume. Bruce arrived in Alexandria in June 1768 committed to discovering the source of the Nile which he thought began somewhere in Abyssinia. He traveled across the northern desert in the guise of a Turkish sailor and finally reached Abyssinia in early 1770. In November of that year he found the previously unknown source of the Blue Nile which he claimed mistakenly to be the Nile of the ancients and therefore more important than the larger White Nile. Bruce's difficult return in 1771 was highlighted by another first: he became the first to trace the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile. The last major obstacle was a dangerous trip back into the desert to recover his journals and baggage which had been left behind after his camels died. Though his Travels was criticized by some contemporaries "the substantial accuracy of every statement concerning his Abyssinian travels has since been amply demonstrated" Ency. Britannica. Bruce's account is also notable for its famous plate of the figure of a harpist in the tomb of Rameses III "the first picture of a scene in the royal tombs to be published" Romer Valley of the Kings 36. Blackmer 221; Cox I 398-99; Howgego III B171; Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 91. J. Ruthvan for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London hardcover books

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Afrique

Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Bd 1 u. 3 (v. 3).

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Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique. par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Bd 1 u. 3 (v. 3).

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TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE IN THE YEARS 1768 1770 1771 1772 AND 1773. . . with ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaird Esq. F.R.S. Author of TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE In the Years 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 & 1773.

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