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xxviii,372,[2];xciip.,plates : maps,music,port. ; 40.

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, Surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

xvii, 2 unnumbered pages, 373 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, folded frontispiece (map (folded)) ; (4to)

The journal of a misson to the interior of Africa in the year 1805 ... / by Mungo Park ; together with other documents, official and private relating to the same mission ; To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park [by John Whishaw, the editor].

Physician travelers

xxviii, 372, xcii pages : illustrations, folded maps, portrait ; 26 cm.

Travels in the interior districts of Africa / [Mungo Park].

<p>Ephemera including broadsides about trade : John Shaw Norton Falgate, London, brush maker, salt tax, (France 1760), Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies (1696), advert for the Camera Lucida, Surrey, Kent, and Sussex Joint Stock Banking Company (1866), Union Office (insurance, Norwich 1817), trade (Tratta) of 5th and 30th August 1743 (Firenze), building materials (by order of the Windsor, Staines, and Richmond Railway Company, 1849), transport: Hotel Dessin (Calais, 1824), routes from Calais to Paris (1814), sale of bankrupt William Moore's horse and coaching business (Richmond, 1800), certificate stating that John Peddie, Thomas Campbell and surgeon William Cowdry have been employed to follow the river Niger through Senegal to its source (1817), plan for a trade voyage from Calcutta to Kamschatska, trade in Graubünden (1822), descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena (1815), and disasters: riot at Maghera (1823), destructive torrent from Sudbury Moor, Keighley (1824), a snake entering the belly of a sleeping child (Swanscombe, Kent), Fire and hurricane (Miramichi, America, 1825), rowing boat collision and drowning (Lea Bridge), Charles II's commiserations on the Great Fire of London (1666), explosion in a mine pit (Washington, Co. Durham 1825), collapse of a mine-shaft in Walker Colliery (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1823), Fire in Bristol, four dead (1826), Lady Mary Fitzgerald who died in a fire in 1815, The tragical history of the merry wake (Dublin), 'John E. Stafford, 166, 63 & 168, Western Road, Brighton ... knick-knacks, fancy & oriental goods' (2 rabbits playing a drum and flying a kite, illustrated in a traditional Chinese style, printed on tissue : 1920s?)</p>

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Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

xvi, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwóra and Bínue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854 / by William Balfour Baikie.

Everyman's library

Travels of Mungo Park / edited by Ronald Miller.

xxviii,372;xcii,[6]p.,plates : maps,music,port. ; 40.

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under ... the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

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viii, 287 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, folded map, folded diagram, table ; (8vo)

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / by James Ormiston M'William.

2 volumes : frontispiece, plates, map ; (8vo)

Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah in 1832, 1833 and 1834 / by MacGregor Laird and R.A.K. Oldfield.

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / By James Ormiston McWilliam.

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Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, Surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

The journal of a misson to the interior of Africa in the year 1805 ... / by Mungo Park ; together with other documents, official and private relating to the same mission ; To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park [by John Whishaw, the editor].

Travels in the interior districts of Africa / [Mungo Park].

Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwóra and Bínue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854 / by William Balfour Baikie.

Travels of Mungo Park / edited by Ronald Miller.

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under ... the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / by James Ormiston M'William.

Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah in 1832, 1833 and 1834 / by MacGregor Laird and R.A.K. Oldfield.

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / By James Ormiston McWilliam.

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Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, Surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

The journal of a misson to the interior of Africa in the year 1805 ... / by Mungo Park ; together with other documents, official and private relating to the same mission ; To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park [by John Whishaw, the editor].

Travels in the interior districts of Africa / [Mungo Park].

Oversize ephemera. EPH+52.

Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwóra and Bínue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854 / by William Balfour Baikie.

Travels of Mungo Park / edited by Ronald Miller.

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under ... the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / by James Ormiston M'William.

Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the River Niger in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah in 1832, 1833 and 1834 / by MacGregor Laird and R.A.K. Oldfield.

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its termination / By James Ormiston McWilliam.

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