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Travels through the interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa [...]

Full title: Travels through the interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, &c. &c. And thence through the Desert of Sahara, and the North of Barbary to Morocco. Between the Years 1781 and 1797. By Christian Frederick Damberger. With a new map, and several coloured plates. Faithfully translated from the German. 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [iii], iv-xxii, pp. 544 (237-256 omitted in paging), ff. [4] (plates). Signatures: a8 b3 B-P8 Q4 R2 S-Z8 Aa-Mm8. Calf. Gilt spine. Red lettering panel. Frontispiece (color portrait), handcolored plates, 1 folding map folded map, by C.F. Goldbach with imprint ‘Published [Decr] 20. 1800. by R. Phillips 78. St. Pauls Ch. Yard’, and ‘Smith & Jones sc. Pentonville’. On pp. 537-544, C.F. Goldbach writes "Of the construction of the map.” This is one of several translations, and probably the first ("The translator's preface" (pp. [iii]-viii) is dated "London, Dec. 13, 1800."), of the third of three fictitious first-person travelogues, all by the mysterious hack and possibly pseudonymous Zacharias Taurinius. These are all issued under different na

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