TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. By JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaid, Esq. F. R. S. The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. To which is prefixed a Life of the Author. Handsomely printed in 7 volumes 8vo. with a Volume of Copperplates in 4to. Price 4l. 16s. bds.—¶ A few copies are printed in Royal Octavo, with full impressions of the Plates. Price 7l. 7s. boards.
* * This Edition of a highly celebrated work, is printed from a correct copy, intended for the press at the time of the Author's death. The use of all his Original Journals, Correspondence, Manuscripts, &c.; the concurring testimonies of later Travellers; along with various other circumstances, have enabled the Editor to render the work more complete and interesting than Mr Bruce himself would have condescended to make it.—To the Account of his Life, which occupies a considerable part of the First Volume, is annexed a selection of Letters from a very valuable Correspondence, in which the names of the Comte de Bassin, the Hon. Dalnes Barrington, Lord Halifax, Mr Wood, Dr Hugh Blair, Mr Andrew Lumsden, Sir Robert Strange, Dr Solander, and many others, deserve particular notice.
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