Anne Raffenel. Voyage dans L'Afrique Occidentale Comprenant L'Exploration du Sénégal, Depuis Saint-Louis Jusqu'à l... (Total: 2 Items)

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Maps and Colored Plates of West Africa

Anne Raffenel. Voyage dans L'Afrique Occidentale Comprenant L'Exploration du Sénégal, Depuis Saint-Louis Jusqu'à la Falémé, au-delà de Bakel; de la Falémé, Depuis son Embouchure Jusqu'à Sansandig; des Mines D'Or de Kéniéba, dans le Bambouk; des Pays de Galam, Bondou et Woolli; et de la Gambie, Depuis Baracounda Jusqu'à L'Océan; Exécuté, en 1843 et 1844. [with:] Voyage dans L'Afrique Occidentale [...] Atlas. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846.

First edition. Octavo. vii, 512 pages. With quarto atlas. Two folding maps. Seven of eleven tinted and colored lithographs (missing plates 1, 2, 9, and 10).

Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped. Extremities somewhat rubbed. Hinges weak. Atlas volume in contemporary quarter leather over cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine and top board. Hinges broken. Backstrip torn and splitting. Some foxing to map and plates. Most plates are loose, having fallen away from their mounting tabs. One plate mounted to a mat board, and several others showing a narrow strip of mounting tape on the verso. Overall, both books are in very good condition.

"Explorations made in 1843 on the upper [Falémé] river by Raffenel carried him to Bambouk and the gold-bearing regions of the Falémé; he then traveled into Kaarta, the country of the Bambara, where he was held prisoner for eight months, but the ministry quietly avoided acting on the proposal to stop native razzias on the posts by direct annexation" (Priestley). From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.

Gay, 2915. Herbert Priesley, France Overseas, 52.