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Enset or abyssinian banana (Ensete): young plant with seed and floral segments. Line engraving by J. Heath, c. 1804.
Date: 1 October 1804Reference: 20921i- Books
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A commiserating epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale and Lowther, Lord Lieut. and Cust. Rot. of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. By Peter Pindar, Esq.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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The natural history of the birds of Western Africa / By William Swainson ... ; the memoir by Andrew Crichton.
Swainson, William, 1789-1855.Date: 1837- Pictures
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James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
Paye, Richard Morton, 1750-1821.Date: March 1793Reference: 667946i- Books
Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants : from the collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his travels to discover the source of the Nile 1767-1773 / by Paul Hulton, F. Nigel Hepper, Ib Friis.
Hulton, P. H. (Paul Hope)Date: 1991- Books
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An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile: abridged from the original work. To which are added, notes and extracts, from the travels of Dr. Shaw, M. Savary, and the memoirs of Baron de Tott.
Bruce, James, 1730-1794.Date: --1798--- Books
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The annual necrology, for 1797-8; including, also, various articles of neglected biography.
Date: 1800