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1835 The Life of Mungo Park
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Description
First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Scarce, Very Scarce
The first edition of the work.
In the original brown boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down.
With a frontispiece of Mungo Park, and a folding map of his travels. Collated, complete.
Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titles Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. He was killed during his second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.
Park was the first Westerner to have recorded his travels in the central portion of the Niger, and through his influential book introduced the European public to a vast unexplored continent.
Condition
In the original boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Externally, very smart. Shelf wear to corners of boards. Mark to front board. Seller's sticker, previous owner's bookplate, and ink inscription to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright.
Very Good Indeed
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