Item #51-3526 Travels in the interior of Africa to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia ; performed by command of the French government in the year 1818, by G. Mollien. First edition. Gaspard Théodore Mollien, Pierre Berthier, T Edward Bowdich, J B. B. Eyriès.

Travels in the interior of Africa to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia ; performed by command of the French government in the year 1818, by G. Mollien. First edition

London: Henry Colburn & Co.,1820. 4to. Original board covers with new roan spine and endpapers. 22 x 28 cm.4to. xii, 378, [4]pp. Frontispiece, folding maps and 6 uncoloured aquatints, some with foxing Abbey, Travel, no. 273. OCLC Unique Identifier: 7391859858


London, Colburn & Co., edited by T. E. Bowdich conductor of the mission to Ashantee, 1820.
In-4 : XII, 378pp., 2f. ; une gravure en frontispice, une grande carte dépliante et 6 aquatintes non colorées (rousseurs).
Reliure simple carton, premier plat détaché, dos absent, tranches sales.
Mollien fut le premier à traverser la Sénégambie du Nord au Sud et à découvrir les sources du Sénégal et de la Gambie. Première édition anglaise. Item #51-3526

Price: $1,500.00