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, with leaf of explanatory text for each of the 3 plates in Volume 4; 3 folding maps. 4 leaves of texts in various Ethiopic languages between pages 400 and 401 in Volume 1. [10] (of [12]), lxxxiii, [1], 535, [1]; [4], viii, 718, [2]; [2] (of [4]), viii, 759, [1]; [2] (of [4]), viii, 695, [1]; [2] (of [4]), xiv, 230, [12] pages, lacking half-title in all volumes but the second. 5 volumes. 4to, Volumes 1 and 3-5 290x230 mm, in contemporary tree sheep gilt, joints cracked or starting, cords intact, Volume 3 front joint and Volume 4 rear joint reinforced, varying toning of contents, plates foxed with occasional marginal dampstains offsetting onto facing pages, dampstain in lower outer corner of Volume 1 covers and contents, marginal dampstaining in Volume 3, blank portion of 2 preliminaries unevenly cropped in Volume 5; Volume 2 316x258 mm, in contemporary 1/4 sheep, spine ends damaged, contents foxed. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790