Second voyage de Mungo Park dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, pendant l'année 1805 ; précédé d'une notice historique et biographique sur la mort de ce célèbre voyageur, composée d'après des documens officiels et particuliers relatifs à ce voyage, et communiqués par sa famille

First edition of the French translation based on the second English edition, with additions drawn from Robert Adams's narrative in Africa, 1810. (cf. Gay 2788.)

Illustrated with 10 plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Mungo Park and a map showing his route from Kayee on the Gambia to Boussa on the Niger.

Contemporary full marbled tan sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons, cream title labels, gilt dentelle and fillet frames on boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets on board edges, speckled edges.

Some wear with minor losses at head and foot of one joint, a few scuffs to the covers, occasional foxing, otherwise a pleasant and sound copy.

This volume includes Mungo Park's journal up to 16 November 1805, as well as the narrative of Isaac, a Mandingo priest who accompanied him on his journey, which would be his last—Park having drowned near Boussa in the Niger River, which he had been one of the first Europeans to explore upstream.