PARK, Mungo (1771-1806). Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 . London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799. 4 o (268 x 213 mm). Half-title. Portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps (one with Park's route hand-colored), 5 engraved plates, 2 leaves engraved music (light offsetting). (Few gatherings at ends browned with minor spotting to some leaves, tiny marginal wormhole to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down, minor wear to corners). [ With: ] PARK. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the year 1805...to which is prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park . London: for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co., 1815. 4 o (262 x 207 mm). Sectional titles. Folding map with Park's route hand-colored (light offsetting to title). (Without the half-title?, marginal tear to m2.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : Horsham Library Society (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITIONS of the accounts of both of Park's expeditions (he died during the second, fortunately having just sent his journals to Gambia). "Park's career was short, but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa...until the publication of [his book] hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa" (PMM 253). Brunet IV:375. (2)
PARK, Mungo (1771-1806). Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 . London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799. 4 o (268 x 213 mm). Half-title. Portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps (one with Park's route hand-colored), 5 engraved plates, 2 leaves engraved music (light offsetting). (Few gatherings at ends browned with minor spotting to some leaves, tiny marginal wormhole to preliminaries.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down, minor wear to corners). [ With: ] PARK. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the year 1805...to which is prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park . London: for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co., 1815. 4 o (262 x 207 mm). Sectional titles. Folding map with Park's route hand-colored (light offsetting to title). (Without the half-title?, marginal tear to m2.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : Horsham Library Society (inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITIONS of the accounts of both of Park's expeditions (he died during the second, fortunately having just sent his journals to Gambia). "Park's career was short, but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa...until the publication of [his book] hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa" (PMM 253). Brunet IV:375. (2)
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