Lot n° 496
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- Lot 496
James BRUCE - Travels to the sources of the Nile, in Nubia and Abyssinia, during the years 1768, 1769, 1770 & 1772. Translated from the English by J.-H. Castera. Volume I [- X].
Paris, (London for Volume II), Hôtel de Thou, Plassan, 1790-1792. 10 volumes of text in-8 and a small atlas in-4, full blue marbled paperback posterior, title piece.
PREMIÈRE TRANSLATION FRANÇAISE, published the same year as the in-4 edition.
[4], xii, cxliii, 580 [ie 584], [2]; 304 (London edition); [4], 480; [4], 480; [4], 918; [4], 750; [4], 821; [4], 575; [4], 810; [4], 538, [1], [1], [1 bl.]; [4], 274 pp.
Volume I is illustrated with 5 plates without text engraved by Bénard.
The "Four journeys to the country of the Hottentots and the cafeteria, in 1777, 1778 & 1779, by Lieutenant William Paterson" form the 10th volume.
Well accompanied by the complete atlas of his 88 plates and maps: map of the route held by Solomon's fleets, map of the routes traced by Bruce during his 2 attempts to reach the sources of the Nile, map of the Gulf of Arabia, from Suez to Bab-el-Mandeb, map of the southern tip of Africa for Lieutenant Paterson's voyages, maps, fauna and flora, monuments.
Moulding affecting the whole of volume 2, small worm gallery affecting a few sheets of a volume. Good copy.
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