Apr 18, 2002 - Sale 1932

Sale 1932 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BRUCE, JAMES. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. 58 engraved plates of 43 natural history and 15 miscellaneous subjects; 3 folding maps (heavily foxed). 4 leaves of texts in various Ethiopic languages between pages 400 and 401 in Volume 1. Half-titles. 5 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, cover corners restored, endpapers renewed, Volume 3 lettering piece imperfect; offsetting from plates, last folding map heavily foxed, infrequent minor foxing of text. handsome set.<> Edinburgh & London, 1790

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