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.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Taurinius, Zacharias, pseud?, author.

Series:

• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

• English
• German

Subjects (All):

• Voyages, Imaginary.

Genre:

• Voyages, Imaginary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 544 pages) : color illustrations, folded map.

Manufacture:

London : Printed for R. Phillips, and sold by T. Hurst, and J. Wallis, by Elphinstons Balfour, 1801.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1801]

Language Note:

Translated from German.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• "The translated preface" dated: London, Dec. 13, 1800.
• Numbers 237-256 omitted in paging.
• Plates colored by hand.
• One of three fictitious voyages, written with the assistance of one "Magister Junge", the other two of which were published under the pseudonyms Joseph Schrödter and Zacharias Taurinius. For a discussion of the authorship, compare Neue allgemeine deutsche bibliothek, volume 58, pages 442-459.
• "Of the construction of the map" (pages 537-544)--signed: C.F. Goldbach.
• Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

OCLC:

681380554

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.