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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0282888489ISBN 13: 9780282888480
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016696736ISBN 13: 9781016696739
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
ISBN 10: 1140984616ISBN 13: 9781140984610
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016397844ISBN 13: 9781016397841
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241501831ISBN 13: 9781241501839
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018
ISBN 10: 1379610788ISBN 13: 9781379610786
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 408 Language: English.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1798 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 414 James Bruce, Samuel Shaw.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1798 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 418 Language: English Pages: 418.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 026559023XISBN 13: 9780265590232
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1812 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 520 Language: English.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018170154ISBN 13: 9781018170152
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1016691947ISBN 13: 9781016691949
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1018164944ISBN 13: 9781018164946
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Glasgow: W. Falconer, 1818
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Crown8vo, xiv, 15 - 300 p. Old dark brown cloth, hand written label on the backstrip. Lacks the front and rear free endpapers, some signatures a little proud, dusty otherwise a near VG uncut copy. The title continues: of the Manners, Customs, Government, Religion, History, &c. of that Country. Being the Substance of the Original Work.
Published by Alexander Thomas and George Merriam, Walpole and Worcester, MA, 1798
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Leather. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second American Edition. .De Tott. Front cover detatched. Wear and chipping at edges and hinges. Front end paper separated. 1/8" chips top and bottom of spine. Otherwise complete with lovely marbled papers inside covers. A great candidate for rebinding. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by 1817, S.Russell, Manchester., 1817
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
486pp. 6 engraved plates. 'Being the substance of the original work'. Ex-college library. In 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. paper darkening and leather scuffed but a sound copy.
Published by H.D. Symonds [1790], London, 1790
Leatherbound. Condition: Fair. Third Edition. ix, [1], 372 p. 18.5 cm quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Includes 3 copper plates. Frontispiece of author. Top of spine torn with leather peeling on edges, vertical crack along spine, tiny hole in bottom of spine, marbled paper coming loose from covers with some small stains as well. Edges rubbed, hinges cracked, corners bumped. Front pastedown unpasted. Back endpaper coming loose as well. Labels removed from front and back endpapers. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Inside, text pages are clean and unmarked.
Published by J. Cundee Albion Press, 1812
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
[title continuedand]: a circumstantial account of the manners, customs, government, religion, history & c & c of that country : being the substance of the original work.9 engraved plates. Portrait & extra engraved title. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), 486-pages. old half calf over marbled boards; upper cover detached, spine badly cracked and chipped. The plates browned and foxed.
Published by Printed for H.D. Symonds, London, 1800
Half leather. Condition: Fair. xi, [i], 372 pages + frontispiece and 5 other plates. The plate facing page 202 - Mr Bruce introduced to the King at Gondar is detached. Printed on poor quality paper, page edges are untrimmed and a bit frayed. Bound in old half leather over marbled boards - the paper on the boards has been recycled as old printed text can clearly be seen beneath the marbling. Leather is worn and there is damage to the boards. A label seems to have been removed from the centre of the front board. Some pencil calculations and verse to the front end papers. Book.
Published by H. D. Symonds, London, 1790
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. The third edition, a good copy in contemporary full calf with label on the spine, a bit rubbed and scuffed. Complete with the four plates, no markings or inscriptions.
Published by H. D. Symonds, London, 1800
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th ed. frontis (portrait), 5 plates, xi, 372p. Contemporary leather, recently rebacked in similarly colored leather. 18cm. Cover edges rather worn; cover darkened around edges. This popular abridgement was edited by Samuel Shaw.
Seller: Michael Graves-Johnston, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Abridged from the original work by Samuel Shaw. Fourth edition, with copper plates. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1800 Contemporary half-calf, 12mo. xi,372pp. 6 engravings. Upper board detached, small hole in title, boards rubbed, from the library of Dr Juel-Jensen with his Amharic bookplate and original invoice. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. [B].
Published by London, James Robins and Co. Albion Press, [1820?]., 1800
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo, pp. xv, [1 (blank)], [17]-486, [2]; with portrait frontispiece (dated 1820), additional engraved title, and 9 engraved plates; some foxing and browning throughout; nevertheless good in recent half black leather over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; 'J.B. Burroughs' in pencil at head of title.First edition thus, an abridged account of James Bruce's famous travels through Ethiopia on a quest to discover the source of the Nile.'Bruce arrived at Alexandria in June 1768 and while there became determined to undertake a journey in search of the source of the Nile. With his companion Luigi Balugani, he ascended the Nile delta to Cairo, then to Aswan where his path was blocked by a local feud. After returning to Qus, he crossed the desert to Cosseir (= Quseir) from where, disguised as a Turkish sailor, he reached Jiddah (May 1769) by way of Sinai and Yanbu (=Yanbu'al Bahr). Continuing down the Red Sea by way of Al Luhayya, on 19.9.69 he reached the port of Massawa (in Ethiopia), at that time in the hands of the Turkish. With a party of twenty men Bruce struck inland in November 1769 to Adowa (= Aduwa) and then to Axum (= Aksum) and Gondar (14.2.70), where Balugani died. Given command of a troop by Ras Michael he proceeded around the western shore of Lake Tana, and to the Tisisat Falls on the Blue Nile (= R. Abbai). Returning slightly to the west, he ascended the Little Abbai, a feeder of Lake Tana from which most of its water flows, to its source at Geesh (14.11.70)' (Howgego). Bruce stayed in the region for about a year. In December 1771 he ascended the Blue Nile where he spotted the larger stream of the White Nile before crossing the desert to Aswan and returning to Cairo, dressed as a beggar, in January 1773. As Pankhurst notes, Bruce 'ranks among the world's great travellers'. Bruce first published an account of his travels some fifteen years after his return, in 1790, in five gargantuan volumes. In London, his stories were often regarded as fabulous: 'long after his death for forty years at least his book was believed by many people to be romantic fiction, and critics continued to attack it . [but] men like Browne and Burckhardt, began to discover that Bruce, far from being a romancer, was a most reliable guide. Little by little they got through the embroideries of his book to the heart of the story he had to tell, and they found it astonishingly sound' (Alan Moorehead, The Blue Nile pp. 48 9).This edition was published more than 25 years after Bruce's death. It is based on and abridged from Bruce's revised version of his Travels, which was first published, in seven octavo volumes, in 1805. The publication of the abridgement appears to have been motivated not only by the desire to offer Bruce's account in a condensed (and therefore more affordable) format, but also by the need to offer the public some more information about the country of Ethiopia at a time when Britain was engaged in 'the purpose of attempting to open friendly relations with that country' (p. iv). Howgego B171; Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 91; Pankhurst 10.
Published by 'Printed for and sold by all the booksellers in town and country' London, 1790
Seller: Byre Books, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. '.to discover the source of the Nile. Abridged from the original work to which is added notes and extracts from the travels of Dr. Shaw, M, Savary, and the Memoirs of Baron de Tott. ' This is the first abridged edition, published in the same year as the five volume first edition. Small octavo in original full leather. Head and tail have worn away. Leather spine title is missing, five raised headbands much worn. Spine and inner hinge repaired with nepalese papers, but still fragile. Corners of boards and edges much worn. Contemporary ink name to feps. Contents foxed throughout, occasional sooty marks. Erased pencil marks to rear ep. Two closed tears repaired. Good. 387pp 0.
Published by Printed For H. D. Symonds by Bye and Law, London, 1800
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Very Good. 4th Edition. Frontis-piece, xi, [1], 372pp, bound in full leather, with binding tight, includes six copper plates, as called for. Covers in Fair Condition, with the front cover nearly detached, lacking portions of the spine, interior in Very Good Condition, with previous ownership label. From the personal collection of Dr. Brooks Ryder (1918-1995), graduate of Harvard College, Harvard School of Public Health, and Tufts Medical School. Known for his Public Health expertise overseas, throughout East Africa and Indonesia.
Published by Printed For, And Sold by All The Booksellers In Town And Country., London., 1790
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. The abridged edition of 1790. Contents & page edges foxed and lightly marked throughout. Bound in contemporary half calf, hinges split but still attached. Red leather titling label. Paper covered boards generally marked. All edges rubbed. Generally a good copy for its age. 387 p. Book.
Publication Date: 1790
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
BRUCE, JAMES. An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. Abridged . . . by Samuel Shaw. New York: For Berry and Rogers, 1790. 12mo. 380, 4 p. Engraved folding map, "Africa," by T. Jefferys. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked with original label laid down. Nineteenth-century signature of Benj. H. Smith, probably the Philadelphia cartographer. Usual moderate foxing common to American books of this period, else a very good copy. First American edition of Samuel Shaw's popular abridged edition of Bruce's travels into Africa, first published in London earlier in the year. Evans 23228.