[MARIE-LOUISE]. PARK Mungo (1771-1806).

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[MARIE-LOUISE]. PARK Mungo (1771-1806).
Second voyage in the interior of Africa, during the year 1805. Paris, Dentu, 1820. In-8, red half-maroquin with small corners, crowned figure in the center, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed (Binding of the time). First edition of the French translation. Gay, p. 205. A frontispiece portrait of Mungo Park engraved by N. Courbe and a folding map. Mungo PARK (1771-1806), a Scottish surgeon with a passion for travel, had volunteered with the African Society established in London to study the course of the Niger, which was at the time a geographical enigma. He undertook a first voyage in 1795 during which, after a long journey, he was taken prisoner and held as a slave. Although he was given up for lost, he managed to escape and became very famous when he returned to Great Britain, two and a half years after the beginning of his expedition. A few years later, Mungo Park undertook a second expedition, this time protected by a large armed escort. But he drowned when his boat sank. The African Society of London then published a second account by Murray in London in 1815, based on communications sent by Park during his voyage, accompanied by a biographical note, comments by Walter Scott and notes by several geographers. Copy with the figure of Marie-Louise, duchess of Parma, ex-empress of the French. Some foxing.
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