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A sequel to the adventures of Baron Munchausen : containing his expedition into Africa ... : humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller ...

Accession number
PML 152353
Published
London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, Pater-noster Row ; [By T. Davison, White-Friars.], 1801.
Credit line
Bequest; Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
At head of title: A new edition; (With twenty capital copper-plates, including the Baron's portrait).
Advertisement on verso of t.p. for "... the former volume, containing The adventures of Baron Munchausen ... the seventh edition ..."
Page ix misprinted xix.
Direction line and frontispiece caption call this Vol. II.
Loosely based on Bruce's Travels into Africa, published in 1790.
Some plates dated Nov. 1, 1792.
Signatures: A-U⁶ X²
Description
xvii, 184 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port. (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo)
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Half blue calf, with marbled paper sides, by Zaehnsdorf.
Classification
Department