[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- [AFRICA] -- Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discover of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae, 1790. FIRST EDITION.
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- [AFRICA] -- Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discover of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae, 1790.
4to (292 x 228 mm). Engraved folding map frontispiece. (Some spotting, a few short tears in map, some short tears.) Contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (top joint repaired, overall rubbing). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Esquire of Alderley (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, published by The African Association, which was created to inform the British of African geography and was founded in 1788. The large engraved frontispiece map depicts Northern Africa and was compiled by J. Rennell, who was a geographer, pioneer of oceanography, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1830.
Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
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