The Polite Traveller, and British Navigator. Volume the First: Being a Modern View of Germany, France and Italy Volume the Second: Being a Modern View of part of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Africa.

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Printed for John Fielding, London, no date [1783]; two volumes bound in one; small 6mo, 88 x 138mm; pp 144 and 144; engraved frontispiece to each volume; volume I lacks the title leaf but volume II is complete; contemporary tree calf but lacks the front board and with the back board loose and the spine very worn; the first seven leaves are loose and a few of those following are close also to being so but the rest of both volumes are firm; occasional slight foxing or browing but otherwise clean throughout. . . . . The work is part of what appears to be an eight volume set, each volume self-contained and dealing with a specific part of the world. The section in the second volume dealing with Africa reports on the travels of James Bruce, the Scottish explorer who arrived in Egypt in 1768 and then travelled to Ethiopia and Abyssinia in search of the source of the Nile, duly discovering the confluence of the Blue and the White Niles. There is also an account of the Cape of Good Hope and its inhabitants and an account of elephant hunting.

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The Polite Traveller, and British Navigator. Volume the First: Being a Modern View of Germany, France and Italy Volume the Second: Being a Modern View of part of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Africa.

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Hardcover

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Poor

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