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Description de L'Afrique Contenant Les Noms La Situation & Les Confins de Toutes ses Parties Leurs Rivieres Leurs Villes & Leurs Habitations Leurs Plantes & Leurs Animaux; Les Moeurs Les Coûtumes La Langue Les Richesses La Religion & Le Gouvernement de Ses Peuples
168661137Amsterdam: Wolfgang Waesberge Boom & van Someren 1686. First Thus. First French edition. Folio in fours 37cm. Contemporary mottled calf spine divided into seven compartments each tooled in gilt all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vi53422pp; engraved title page 26 of 42 double-page line-engraved plates 55 in-text line engravings. Lacking 17 maps and plates including the large folding map of Africa. Bookseller's embossed stamp of F. R. Thorold Johannesburg to front free endpaper. Text complete collating 2o: π1 2 A-3Z4 4A2 signed $1-3 2K3 not signed. Generally tight with minor edgewear lower front joint starting to split very occasional spots of foxing but overall clean: a sound but obviously defective copy.<br /> <br /> The only French translation of this important 1668 text on Africa considered authoritative in its day despite the fact that its Dutch author never visited Africa instead relying on primary accounts of voyages. Extensively illustrated with depictions of people cities flora and fauna; this copy lacking almost all the maps but serviceable. Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren unknown
Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €
