Travels In the Interior Districts Of Africa

London, W.Bulmer and Co., 1799 4º. xxviii,(2),372 pp., xcii. Bound to style in a fine later calf. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtoolings to bands and compartments of spine. Engraved portrait as frontispiece, 2 engraved plates with music, 5 engraved plates (of which 3 are views) and 3 large folded engraved maps. One map strenghtened in foldings and edges, one map… Read more about this item

London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799.4to. Contemporary mottled calf, skilfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine richly gilt. . With engraved portrait, 2 plates with musical scores, 3 folding maps (1 tear rep.) and 5 engraved plates (2 folding). XXVIII,372,XCII,(2) pp.Published in the same year as the first edition; with bookplate of J.S.W.S. Erle Drax. - Mungo… Read more about this item

London: W. Bulmer for the Author, 1799. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto, 10 x 8.25 inches, contemporary full brown leather, gilt spine, red title label, good copy, general wear and rubbing to binding, front board shows restoration at the outer joint and inner hinge, minor wear to boards, dryness and loss along spine, contents good to very… Read more about this item

London: Printed for John Murray, 1799 and 1815. 2 volumes. Rare First Edition of each volume. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Park, finely engraved plates and folding maps throughout. 4to, handsomely bound in three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands bordered with gilt fillet lines, compartments of the spines with handsome gilt-work, decorations… Read more about this item

New York: J. Tiebout, 1800. First American Edition. Full calf. Very good. The first American edition of Travels In the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park, published in New York in 1800, with the large fold-out map of Africa.. Octavo, 354pp, [2], 86pp. appendix. Full calf, title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. Previous ownership… Read more 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.… Read more about this item

London: Bulmer and Co; Murray, 1799-1815. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 8". None. The first edition of these important African travel works based on Mungo Park's missions. Park's writings and journals became an immediate success and a staple in Africana and travel literature. A set, in their contemporary bindings, rebacked with the original boards preserved. Uncommon… Read more about this item

London: Printed By W.Bulmer And Co. For The Author; And Sold By G. & W.Nicol, 1799., 1799. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xxviii, 372, xcii. lacking half-title. engraved frontis. portrait, 3 engraved maps (1 folding, 2 double-page & folding), & 5 engraved plates (2 folding). without the 2 engraved plates of music which are not always present. An attractive copy, bound… Read more about this item

London: by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol; [and] for John Murray, by W. Bulmer and Co.,, 1799 & 1815. A classic of travel literature" with a distinguished provenance Second and first editions respectively of the earliest accounts of the interior of Africa, hitherto little-known in the West. The Travels of… Read more about this item

London: by W. Bumler and Co, 1799. First edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait and 8 other fine engraved plates including a large folding map. 4to, full contemporary mottled tree calf, the spine with gilt stopped raised bands separating the compartments which are ruled in gilt, red morocco label gilt lettered to one compartment. xxviii,… Read more about this item

London.: John Murray. , 1816. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good. Bound in distressed full calf, contemporaneous with publication date and beautifully blind stamped with central Celtic knot motif and border. Joints cracked and calf to spine is chipped, with a missing portion to the foot of Vol. I.… Read more about this item

London: W. Bulmer and Company, 1799. Rebound in mid-1970's with binder's note at rear. Original endpapers. Half-title. Frontipiece engraving of the author with off-setting onto the title-page. Collated complete with three folding maps and six plates counting the frontispiece. The first map of Mr. Park's route has red and blue route markings. All maps are intact and in very good… Read more about this item

London: William Tegg and Co., 1847. Later Printing. Cloth. Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Front Room Burgundy boards [5]+xiv-lx+330p,illus. Spine reguled Book split in half Early owners book-plate on paste-down

London: John Murray, 1816. Second edition. Hardcover. Good -. Important influential account of the search for the source of the Niger River in West Africa, by the first Westerner to have explored this area. Written in an unpretentious style, the work gave European readers a vivid impression of every day life in West Africa; it became a best… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1817, 1816. xx, 559, [1]; [2], xvi, xcvi [i.e. cxcvi], [2], xcvii-cviii, cli*-clxxvii*, [1], 301, [1], large folding map (with Park's routes outlined in colours), 1 map. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, cont. half calf, rubbed, gt, marbled boards, joints rubbed, beginning to crack, but firm. Leaf xxiii/xxiv in Vol. II working loose. A good set..… Read more about this item

Arno Press, 1971. hardcover. Good. 10x7x1. Red cloth boards, no dust jacket. Minor wear. Has a good binding, no marks or notations. 372 pp, [xcii]. All foldout maps included and in very good condition.

London: John Murray, 1816. New Edition. Full Leather. VG. performed in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797 with an account of a subsequent missions to that country in 1805. ...to which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. With an appendix containing geographical ill. of Africa by Major Rennell. 2 vol: 455 pp, ill. folding… Read more about this item

London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1799. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Second Edition of this significant travel narrative; "[Park]...made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa" [Printing and the Mind of Man, 253]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Mungo Park, a folding map showing "The Route of Mr. Park";… Read more about this item

London: by W. Bumler and Co for the Author [and] for John Murray, 1799; 1815. 2 volumes. Rare First Edition of each volume. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Park, finely engraved plates including the music plates, and folding maps throughout, a number of the maps coloured in outline. All plates and maps present as called for.… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799. Second edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps and charts, two botanical engraved plates, and three copper-engraved plates after drawings by the author, 2 leaves of engraved music. xxviii, 372, xcii, [2] pp. Half-title. 1… Read more about this item