Damberger (C.F.): TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdom of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, Etc, Etc., and thence through the Desert of Sahara and the north of Barbary to Morocco, between the years 1781 and 1797

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Damberger (C.F.) : TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdom of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, Etc, Etc., and thence through the Desert of Sahara and the north of Barbary to Morocco, between the years 1781 and 1797

xxii + 544 pages, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), hand coloured engraved frontispiece, 2 hand coloured plates, folding map repaired, contemporary full sprinkled calf worn at extremities, contents free of foxing

Mendelssohn 1.408: 'One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travel ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception ... The fraud was exposed by Isaac D'Israeli in his "Curiosities of Literature" and he observed, "Damberger's travels ... made a great sensation and the public were duped; they proved to be the ideal voyages of a member of the German Grub Street about his own garret."'

Damberger (C.F.) : TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdom of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, Etc, Etc., and thence through the Desert of Sahara and the north of Barbary to Morocco, between the years 1781 and 1797 is listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase by Clarkes Africana & Rare Books.

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