Manuel de la navigation à la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Vues de côtes

This illustrated volume with 58 engraved plates numbered 1-57 (including a plate 15bis) serves as the atlas to the two text volumes of the Manual of Navigation to the West Coast of Africa, issued in 1851.

Not in Polak, although that bibliography carefully records all the author’s other works, as well as the extracts derived from the Manual.

Some foxing, a light marginal waterstain to the right margin of all leaves.

Contemporary half navy blue cloth, smooth spine ruled in blind, paper losses and abrasions to the marbled paper boards, a small label pasted at the head of the upper cover, a few nicks to the edges, corners rubbed.

A lieutenant in the French Navy, Charles Philippes de Kerhallet (1809-1863) produced numerous navigational works. Azores, Morocco, Madeira, Canary Islands, Sahara, Cape Verde, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Biafra, Congo, Angola, the Cape.