[AFRICA]. Set of 3 books including: - BARROW (John). Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique, fait dans les années 1797 et 1798. Paris, Dentu, 1801. 2 volumes in-8, first edition in French, illustrated with a hors-texte plate featuring a unicorn head found among the Boschismans and a fold-out table of useful woods growing in the Cape of Good Hope colony. Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title and gilt stamps, all edges red. Handwritten bookplate F. Genest Pharmacopoei 1812. (incomplete folding map, small wormholes on spine, some light foxing). - GOLBERRY (Sylvain Meinrad-Xavier). Fragmens d'un Voyage en Afrique, fait pendant les années 1785, 1786 et 1787, dans les Contrées occidentales de ce Continent. Paris, Treuttel et Wurts, An X - 1802. 2 volumes in-8, first edition illustrated with 2 fold-out maps including a map of the course of the Senegal River and a map of the island of Gorée, and 4 hors-texte plates including a fold-out view of the island of Saint-Louis du Sénégal. Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title and gilt stamps, all edges red. Handwritten bookplate F. Genest Pharmacopoei 1812. (incomplete of the carté d'Afrique, small tears on the first cover, small wormholes on the spine). - HORNEMANN (Friedrich). Voyage dans l'Afrique septentrionale, depuis le Caire jusqu'à Mourzouk... Suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la géographie de l'Afrique, par M. Rennell. Translated from English and augmented with notes and a Mémoire sur les Oasis composed principally from Arabic authors by L. Langlès. Paris, Dentu, An XI - 1803. 2 parts in an in-8 volume, first edition in French. Bound in contemporary full marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title, all edges red. (2 maps incomplete, top of endpaper cut out). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio
Estimate
€150 - €200
Result
€150
Buyer's premium
27%
[AFRICA]. Set of 3 books including:
- BARROW (John). Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique, fait dans les années 1797 et 1798. Paris, Dentu, 1801.
2 volumes in-8, first edition in French, illustrated with a hors-texte plate featuring a unicorn head found among the Boschismans and a fold-out table of useful woods growing in the Cape of Good Hope colony.
Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title and gilt stamps, all edges red.
Handwritten bookplate F. Genest Pharmacopoei 1812.
(incomplete folding map, small wormholes on spine, some light foxing).
- GOLBERRY (Sylvain Meinrad-Xavier). Fragmens d'un Voyage en Afrique, fait pendant les années 1785, 1786 et 1787, dans les Contrées occidentales de ce Continent. Paris, Treuttel et Wurts, An X - 1802.
2 volumes in-8, first edition illustrated with 2 fold-out maps including a map of the course of the Senegal River and a map of the island of Gorée, and 4 hors-texte plates including a fold-out view of the island of Saint-Louis du Sénégal.
Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title and gilt stamps, all edges red.
Handwritten bookplate F. Genest Pharmacopoei 1812.
(incomplete of the carté d'Afrique, small tears on the first cover, small wormholes on the spine).
- HORNEMANN (Friedrich). Voyage dans l'Afrique septentrionale, depuis le Caire jusqu'à Mourzouk... Suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la géographie de l'Afrique, par M. Rennell. Translated from English and augmented with notes and a Mémoire sur les Oasis composed principally from Arabic authors by L. Langlès. Paris, Dentu, An XI - 1803.
2 parts in an in-8 volume, first edition in French.
Bound in contemporary full marbled calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title, all edges red.
(2 maps incomplete, top of endpaper cut out).
Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio
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