Travels in the interior districts of Africa: . performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.
Mungo Park (1771-1806)
Category
Books
Date
1799
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3050101
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii,363,[8],366-372;xciip., [9] leaves of plates (3 folded) . ill.., maps, music, port.. . 4to.. Bound in 2 vols; the Appendix is in vol. 2, and is bound with: Park, Mungo. "The journal of a mission to the interior of Africa" (London, 1815). Imperfect: wanting the title page to the Appendix. Identified in 1768 catalogue: M.2.. Provenance: Bookplate in both vols.: George Harry Grey (1765-1845) after 1819; anonymous armorial. Not in Franks or Viner. Bookseller's label on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: 'J. Ford. Bookseller, stationer &c. 39 Market Street, Manchester'.. Binding: 19th century purple diced calf binding; gilt fillet and blind palmette roll pattern border on boards; gilt roll patterns on board edges and turn-ins; blind and gold-tooled spines. Marbled edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
Mungo Park (1771-1806) Major James Rennell (1742-1830)