Gaspard MOLLIEN, Ambroise TARDIEU
Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, aux sources du Sénégal et de la Gambie[Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia]
Madame Veuve Courcier|Paris 1820|13.2 x 21.1 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with 4 engraved plates by Ambroise Tardieu (portrait of Diai-Boukari in marabout attire from Foutatoro, view of the Foutatoro army on the march, view of the sources of the Rio Grande and the Gambia, view of Timbo); and a large folding map at the end of the first volume, copy signed by the author on the verso of the title page of vol. I.
Contemporary half calf bindings, spines decorated with gilt roll tooling in place of raised bands, title and volume labels in red calf, paper covered boards, speckled blue edges, small wormhole to the lower hinge of the first volume.
Shortly after the Treaty of Paris returned Senegal to France, Molli
€750