Paris

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 "Work decorated with forty-four plates, most executed after original unpublished drawings, made on location".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 leaves in volume 2. Offsetting of first signature in volume 1.
Esteemed monograph on Senegal. Geoffroy de Villeneuve traveled from 1785 to 1788 in Senegal with the Chevalier de Boufflers. His account L'Afrique ou Histoire, mœurs, usages et coutumes des Africains, Le Sénégal, published by Nepveu in 1814, is one of the sources for Jules Verne's Cinq semaines en ballon when he speaks of the shipwrecks of Saugnier and Brisson, which constitute the beginning of the work on Senegal. It also contains the description of a slave ship, and a vocabulary of the Wolof language.