NMLP P-036042 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773

James Bruce · J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson (Edinburgh) · 1790

It is illustrated with roughly sixty plates and maps in total, including three large folding maps of Eastern Africa and Lake Tana, an engraved title-page vignette in each volume, and, in volume I, several inserted leaves of Ethiopian-language text (Ge'ez and Amharic) reproduced from Bruce's own transcriptions

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036042 for "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773" by James Bruce (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036042, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).