Historical account of discoveries and travels in Africa
Subtitle: from the earliest ages to the present time; including the substance of the late Dr. Leyden's work on that subject
By: by Hugh Murray, F.R.S.E.
Contributors: Hall, Sidney, engraver; Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, engraver; Lizars, Daniel, 1793- engraver; Leyden, John, 1775-1811; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
Edition: Second edition, corrected and enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for Archibald Constable and company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; British; Description and travel; Découverte et exploration; Discoveries in geography
Notes: Vol. 1: xxiii, [1], 557 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates ; vol. 2: viii, 550 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 fold.).

Based on John Leyden's "A historical and philosophical sketch of the discoveries and settlements of Europeans in northern and western Africa, at the close of the eighteenth century", Edinburgh 1799.

In vol. 1, a map entitled "Africa, including the latest discoveries" preceding p. 1; "Western Africa" preceding p. 49. In vol. 2: "Egypt" preceding title page; "Chart of the River Zaire from Capt. Tuckey's narrative" preceding p. 3; "Central Africa according to Ptolemy" preceding p. 389; "Central Africa according to Edrisi" following p. 394; "Central Africa according to geographers of the 16th and 17th centuries" following p. 400. The first three maps drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall, Bury St., Bloomsbury; the second three maps engraved by W. & D. Lizars, Edinburgh.

"List of important books relating to Africa": v. 2, p. 535-550.