Interessante Skizzen des Neuesten und Wissenswerthesten aus der Geschichte, Politik und Statistik, gesammelt und herausgegeben von J.W.Arndt.

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8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 174, [1] contents; contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, but a good copy, with engraved heraldic bookplate of Ladislav Vietor. First and only edition of this curious compilation of geographical and historical essays. There are brief essays on Tunis and Tripoli, on the Barbary Coast, some information on Napoleon, with a satirical French catechism (Auf was hofft der Franzos). But most importantly the work contains what appears to be the first German translation of the Diary of Isaaco, first published in English as The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the year 1805 by Mungo Park. Together with other Documents, official and private, relating to the same Mission, 1815. Isaaco, Mungo Park's Mandingo guide, had been asked by him to take letters back to Gambia for transmission to Britain. When no more was heard of Mungo Park, the British government engaged Isaaco to go to the Niger to investigate Park's fate. Isaaco managed to track down Amadi, the guide who had gone downstream with Park, into providing the present account. OCLC lists just one copy in Frankfurt. N° de ref. del artículo 3802

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