JAMES BRUCE - 1730-1794 Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1772, & 1773.- Vol. VIII. Vol. VIII. containing the plates and maps.- The second edition, corrected and enlarged to which is prefixed a life of the author.- Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne, 1805.- 16 p.: 19, 3, 57 gravuras, 3 mapas desdobráveis; 30 cm.- E. James Bruce (1730-1794), writer, traveller and Scottish Explorer who stayed around for 12 years in Africa claiming the discovery of the sources of the Nile in detriment of other travellers in particular the Portuguese Jesuit Missionary Jerónimo Lobo (1595-1678).