Beschreibung:

Africa.- Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 vol., first edition, engraved title-vignettes, 3 folding maps, 58 engraved plates (including 3 battle plans, each with an explanatory leaf of text), 4 letterpress leaves of Ethiopian dialects, list of plates at end of vol. 5, lacking half-titles, 3G1 & 3G2 misbound (vol. 2), small marginal holes (4O4 vol. 4 & 2G3 vol. 5), faint marginal damp-staining, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, modern green morocco spine labels, cracked hinges, upper cover detached (vol. 5), rubbed and worn, some loss to spine extremities, [Hosken p.29], 4to, Edinburgh, J. Ruthven, 1790.