Voyages et découvertes dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le major Houghton et Mungo-Park, deux agens de la Société établie en Angleterre, pour favoriser les progrès des découvertes dans cette partie du monde
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Type of record: Book
Title: Voyages et découvertes dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le major Houghton et Mungo-Park, deux agens de la Société établie en Angleterre, pour favoriser les progrès des découvertes dans cette partie du monde
Classmark: Anglo-French 3 1798/HOU
Additional creator(s): Houghton, Daniel (1740?-1791) (Other); Park, Mungo (1771-1806) (Other); Lallemant, A J N (Other); Edwards, Bryan (1743-1800) (Other); Rennell, James (1742-1830) (Other); Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (Other)
Related people: Houghton, Daniel; Park, Mungo; Lallemant, A. J. N; Edwards, Bryan; Rennell, James
Publisher: Chez Tavernier
Publication city: A Paris
Date(s): an VI [1798]
Language: French
Size and medium: [vii], 343 [sic] p., [3] leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/252430
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016037999705181
Description
Page 243 wrongly numbered 343.
"Voyage et découvertes du major Houghton dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique" and "Voyage et découvertes de M. Mungo-Park dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique" each have special half title. These are 3rd-person accounts based on the explorers' reports. The former is anonymous; the latter is by Bryan Edwards. It appeared in the Proceedings under title: An abstract of Mr. Park's account of his travels and discoveries.
Translation, by A.J.N. Lallement, of extracts from Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
Roberts 84a.
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