Item #102559 Bruce's Travels through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. James Bruce.
Bruce's Travels through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile.

Bruce's Travels through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile.

Halifax: Milner & Sowerby, 1852. 16mo, professionally rebound in black cloth with red leather title label lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Engraved b&w plates, frontis, title page vignette, pp v, 463. xvi, Includes 16 pp 'Memoir of the Life of James Bruce, Esq.'. An early edition. Pages lightly toned, clean, very good condition.

James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730 - 1794) travelled extensively in North Africa and Ethiopia, including finding the source of the Blue Nile in 1770. Item #102559

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