Anne-Jean-Baptiste RAFFENEL
Nouveau voyage dans le pays des Nègres suivi d'études sur la colonie du Sénégal et de documents historiques, géographiques et scientifiques[New Voyage in the Land of the Negroes, followed by Studies on the Colony of Senegal and Historical, Geographical and Scientific Documents]
Napoléon Chaix|Paris 1856|15.4 x 24.3 cm|2 volumes reliés
Very rare first edition, illustrated with two frontispieces, eighteen plates, and a folding map table bound at the end of the second volume.
Scattered foxing.
Half black shagreen bindings, smooth spines tooled in blind with fillets and small ornaments, gilt lettering at the foot of the spines showing some rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light rubbing to the extremities, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.
Born at Versailles in 1809, Anne Jean-Baptiste Raffenel entered the Naval administration in 1825.
After several voyages, notably to Africa, the West Indies and the United States, he was posted to Senegal and from 1843 explo
€1,500