Lot 08548

PARK Mungo, “Travels in the Interior of Africa”, W. Espy, Dublin, 1821. 16mo, pp. 180. COMPLETE including frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations. Contemporary full-leather, rubbed. Inside clean and fine. Also includes 15 wood-cut footer. Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully traveled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger. Rare.