Paolo Della CELLA
Voyage en Afrique au royaume de Barcah et dans la Cyrénaique à travers le désert
Armand Aubrée|Paris 1840|13 x 21.3 cm|Relié
Very rare first edition of the French translation, partially unpublished, enriched with historical, geographical, and botanical notes, as well as a notice on ancient and modern Cyrenaica, the Kingdom of Fezzan, Timbuktu, the oasis of Siwah (the ancient Ammon Oasis and the Temple of Jupiter), the desert wind, the sacred ibis, the lotus, Egyptian papyrus, and the silphium so highly prized by the Ancients.
Illustrated with 8 plates and 1 folding map out of text.
Not recorded by Gay. Bourquelot V, 657 mentions only 7 plates and 1 map.
Contemporary-style binding in black half calf, flat spine decorated with double blind fillets, marbled paper boards, red edges. Modern binding
€1,000