Voyage dans l'Afrique occidentale comprenant l'exploration du Sénégal, depuis Saint-Louis jusqu'à la Falémé, au-delà de Bakel ; de la Falémé, depuis son embouchure jusqu'à Sansandig ; des mines d'or de Kéniéba, dans le Bambouk ; des pays de Galam, Bondou et Woolli ; et de la Gambie, depuis Baracounda jusqu'à l'Océan ; exécuté, en 1843 et 1844, par une commission composée de MM. Huard-Bessinières, Jamin, Raffenel, Peyre-Ferry and Pottin-Patterson.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1846.
two vols. In-8 and an atlas in-4, bound in marbled cardboard and leather spine with gilt fillets
The atlas includes 2 large maps and 11 colour lithographs, showing 22 types of Africans.
RAFFENEL'S FIRST VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION.
Pages 491 to 494 missing (replaced by copies), spine torn off from text vol. Wear to spines. Numerous stains and foxing on both volumes.
Ex libris "Bibliothèque de M. le Duc d'Uzès Château de Bonnelles".
Attached:
Cloth map of Senegal, the Falémé and the Cambie drawn up under the direction of Colonel L. Faidherbe by Brossard de Corbigny. 1861.
In a slipcase
Stains.
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