Lot 466

Bruce, James











Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
£1,875
Description
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768... 1773. Edinburgh: printed by J. Ruthven, 1790. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to, 3 engraved plans, 3 folding maps and 55 engraved plates, 4 leaves showing Ethiopian dialects, titles with engraved vignette, half-titles in volumes 1-4, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, black morocco volume-pieces, two joints repaired, head of spines rubbed, very minor worming to extreme margin of first few leaves of volume 1, plates and maps clean, short tear to one folding map, without loss
Footnote
Provenance: Johnstown Kennedy Library, armorial bookplates.










