search results

Previous Showing result 5 of 8 Next

Close

MARC Record view

001 $ 03/2871
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20211014224918.4
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Bruce, James
245 1 0 $a Travels To Discover The Source Of The Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In Five Volumes. By James Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq. F.R.S. Vol. I. (-V.)
246 3 # $a Select Specimens Of Natural History Collected In Travels to discover the Source of the Nile
260 # # $a Edinburgh: $b Printed By J. Ruthven, For G.G.J. And J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London. $c M.DCC.XC. $c [1790]
300 # # $a 5 vols.; $c 297 mm. (Quarto).
500 # # $a Vol. I: [12], lxxxiii, [1], 535 [i.e. 543], [1] p., [8] pl. Between pages 400 and 401 there are seven pages printed in Ethiopic letter and one blank page; these are listed as a plate in the 'List Of The Plates' in Volume V. - Vol. II: [4], viii, 718 p. - Vol. III: [4], viii, 759, [1] p., [4] pl. - Vol. IV:[4], viii, 695 [i.e.701], [1] p., 3 pl. Each of the three plates is accompanied by one unpaginated leaf of explanatory text. The three plates are plans of battle-fields. - Vol. V: [4], iv, [iii-]xiv, 230, [12] p., [46] pl. (3 fold.). The three folding pl. are maps.
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Introduction - Contents Of The First Volume - [Text, with pl.]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text]. - Vol. III: [Half-t., t.p.] - Contents Of The Third Volume - [Text]. - Vol. IV: [Half-t., t.p.] - Contents Of The Fourth Volume - [Text, with pl.] - Register Of The Barometer And Thermometer in Abyssinia, 1770. - Vol. V: [Half-t., t.p.] - Contents Of The Fifth Volume - Introduction - [Text, with pl.:] Of Plants, Shrubs, And Trees; Of Quadrupeds; Of Birds - List Of The Plates In Mr. Bruce's Travels - Index [of whole work] - Errata [of whole work].
508 # # $a No plates are signed by a draughtsman; but Bruce employed Luigi Balugani to make sketches and maps. Several plates and some title-page vignettes are signed as engraved by Heath. Two of the three folding maps in Volume V are signed as engraved by J. Walker.

Each plate carries the publisher's imprint of G. Robinson and the date.

The publishers, 'G.G.J. and J. Robinson' are George Robinson (1736-1801), his son, George, and two brothers, John and James.

The work is dedicated by the author to the King (George III).
510 3 # $a P. Hulton, Luigi Balugani's drawings of African plants (1991)
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T51608
510 3 # $a M. Bredin, The pale Abyssinian: a life of James Bruce (2000).
520 2 # $a A variant title is carried by the fifth volume: 'Select Specimens Of Natural History Collected In Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, In Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia'. This volume has the half-title and running-title, 'Appendix'.

The publication date of 1790 is given on the title pages and is carried by some plates in Volume V. Almost all other plates carry the publication-date of December 1 1789.

Several of Bruce's drawings were presented to George III, and are in the Royal Collection at Windsor.
533 # # $n A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
561 # # $a Acquired between 1790 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
562 # # $a Imperfect: lacks the half-titles.
563 # # $a 18th-century mottled calf; rebacked in 20th century, red and green morocco spine-labels lettered 'Bruce's Travels Vol I (-V) RA'.
600 1 4 $a Bruce, James
600 1 4 $a Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre
653 # # $a Natural history - Plants - Botany - Animals - Birds - Africa, East - Nile (River) - Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan) - Egypt - Sudan - Ethiopia - History - 18th century
653 # # $a British - Explorers - Expeditions - Discoveries in Geography - Africa, East - Nile (River) - Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan) - Egypt - Sudan - Ethiopia - Description and travel - History - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Travel literature - Maps - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Robinson, George $e publisher
700 0 # $a George III $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Robinson, John $e publisher
700 1 # $a J. Ruthven $e printer
700 1 # $a Heath, James $e engraver
700 1 # $a Walker, J. $e engraver
700 1 # $a Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Robinson, George $e publisher
700 1 # $a Robinson, James $e publisher
852 8 # $d 1802: 7-0-03; 1821: F-4-03.