Bruce, James (1730-1794) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile

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Bruce, James (1730-1794) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: by Ruthven for the Robinsons, 1790.
First edition, five large quarto volumes, engraved vignettes on titles, fifty-eight full page and folding plates (including the three folding battle plans),and the three large folding maps; no half-titles; bound in contemporary marbled calfskin, spines dry, some joints cracked, labels flaking and fragmentary, occasional spotting, intense for three or four leaves in two volumes, 9 x 11 in. (5)
Estimate $1,000-1,200


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