Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, first edition, engraved frontispiece, plate and 2 folding maps, title and some other ff. foxing, offsetting and browning, last f. Appendix creased, lacks front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, spine rubbed with abrasions, corners bumped, 4to, for T.Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1799. *** An account of the author's six-year attempt to reach Darfur (Central Sudan), an area previously unvisited by Europeans, three years of which he spent in captivity. He was murdered in 1832 on the road between Tabriz and Teheran.
Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, first edition, engraved frontispiece, plate and 2 folding maps, title and some other ff. foxing, offsetting and browning, last f. Appendix creased, lacks front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, spine rubbed with abrasions, corners bumped, 4to, for T.Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1799. *** An account of the author's six-year attempt to reach Darfur (Central Sudan), an area previously unvisited by Europeans, three years of which he spent in captivity. He was murdered in 1832 on the road between Tabriz and Teheran.
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