René Claude GEOFFROY DE VILLENEUVE
L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des Africains. Le Sénégal par R. G. V.
Nepveu|Paris 1814|8.50 x 13.50 cm|4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 44 figures, 2 maps and one music plate. "Work decorated with forty-four plates, most executed after original unpublished drawings, made on location".
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label, other title label in brown morocco. 2 tears on volume 2 in the first compartment. Split to lower joint at head. Both volumes are noticeably warped. Vol. 2 p. 35, cuts to upper margin caused by wormholes; p. 40 to 64? wormhole track in left margin, as well as on one plate. One tear in volume 1, p. 17. P. 85 to 101 in volume 1, wormhole track in center. Occasionally small cuts to upper margin on certain
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label, other title label in brown morocco. 2 tears on volume 2 in the first compartment. Split to lower joint at head. Both volumes are noticeably warped. Vol. 2 p. 35, cuts to upper margin caused by wormholes; p. 40 to 64? wormhole track in left margin, as well as on one plate. One tear in volume 1, p. 17. P. 85 to 101 in volume 1, wormhole track in center. Occasionally small cuts to upper margin on certain
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