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Travels to discover the source of the Nile : in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In six volumes / by James Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq. F.R.S.

Title Variants:

Alternative: Bruce's travels

Alternative: Select specimens of natural history collected in travels to discover the source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia

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Book

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Publication info

Dublin :Printed [by William Sleater,] for P. Wogan, L. White..., and R. White,MDCCXC-MDCCXCI [1790-1791]

Subjects

Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Egypt , Ethiopia , History , Natural history , Nile River

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.45912

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Title

Travels to discover the source of the Nile : in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In six volumes / by James Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq. F.R.S.

Title Variants:

Alternative: Bruce's travels

Alternative: Select specimens of natural history collected in travels to discover the source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia

By

Bruce, James, 1730-1794

Genre

Book

Material Type

Published material

Publication info

Dublin :Printed [by William Sleater,] for P. Wogan, L. White..., and R. White,MDCCXC-MDCCXCI [1790-1791]

Notes:

Vol. 6 has full and half t.p.: Select specimens of natural history collected in travels to discover the source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.

Vols 1 and 6 are dated 1790; vols. 2-5, 1791.

Includes index and appendix, v. 6.

Contains 52 plates and 3 folded maps.

Vol. 3 printed by William Porter, v. 5 by Graisberry and Campbell, and v. 6 by Zachariah Jackson.

ESTC, | N27890

Subjects

Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Egypt , Ethiopia , History , Natural history , Nile River

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English

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OCLC: 8855309

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.45912

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