John LANDER, Richard Lemon LANDER
Journal d'une expédition entreprise dans le but d'explorer le cours et l'embouchure du Niger, ou relation d'un voyage sur cette rivière depuis Yaourie jusqu'à son embouchure[Journal of an Expedition Undertaken with the Aim of Exploring the Course and Mouth of the Niger, or an Account of a Voyage on This River from Yaourie to Its Mouth (…) Translated from the English by Mrs Louise Sw.-Belloc]
Paulin|Paris 1832|13.2 x 21 cm|3 volumes reliés
First edition of the illustrated French translation, with 2 maps (one folding), in-text figures, and 5 steel-engraved plates by Fauchery (see Chadenat 2669. Borba de Moraes does not mention the very brief passage devoted to the Rio stage of the journey (see volume III, p. 381), which is in fact rather insignificant).
Some foxing.
Contemporary romantic bindings in aubergine half sheep, smooth spines faded and decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, light wear to the headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, armorial bookplates pasted to the pastedowns, speckled edges.
The English traveller Richard Lander [1804–1834], originally trained as a pri
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