Lot 282
Park, Mungo
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
Travels in the interior districts of Africa. Philadelphia, 1800. First American edition, 8vo, folding engraved map, contemporary calf, list of subscribers, slightly spotted, rebacked; Cordova, Admiral Don. A. de. A voyage of discovery to the strait of Magellan. London: R. Phillips, [1812]. 8vo, engraved portrait & folding chart, modern calf-backed cloth; Smith, E. Fragments in prose and verse. London: Cadell & Davies, 1810. 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait, original boards, uncut, rubbed; De Retz, Cardinal Memoirs. Dublin: W. Watson, 1777. 4 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, head of two spines rubbed; Buffon, G.L.M., comte de Buffon's natural history abridged. Dublin: P. Wogan, 1791. 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 40 engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt; and 40 others [including a run of Portfolio of English cathedrals] (49)