Historical account of discoveries and travels in Africa, by the late John Leyden, M.D. Enlarged, and completed to the present time ... By Hugh Murray ...
John Leyden (1775-1811)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3098611
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : maps (some fold.) ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Provenance: inscribed "Ashton Mosley, Burnaston House, Derbyshire" [i.e. Ashton Nicholas Every Mosley (1792-1875), grandfather of Col. Godfrey Mosley (1863-1945) who married Hilda Harpur Crewe in 1918]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; gilt tooled and lettered on spine; recessed cords. (Spine damage, part missing.)
Makers and roles
John Leyden (1775-1811), author Hugh Murray (1779-1846)