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Maps of Africa

M. Charles de la Ronciè. La Déouverte de L'Afrique au Moyen Âge Cartographes et Explorateurs: Tome Premier, L'Intérieur du Continent; Tome Dexuième, Le Périple du Continent; Tome Troisième, Un Explorateur Français du Niger, Les Débuts de Christophe Colomb, Un Peintre Italien à la Cour D'Abyssinie. Cairo: La Société Royale de Géographie D'Égypte, 1924, 1925, 1927.

First edition. Three quarto volumes in one. viii, 174; 144; viii, 130 pages. Forty maps and plates, a few color, many double-page or folding. Index.

Contemporary polished half morocco over cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate of previous owner. Very good.

This set, complete in three volumes, contains, respectively, volumes V, VI, and XIII of Mémoirs de la Société Royale de Géographie D'Égypte. Included is a collection of maps in reproduction from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries from a wide range of museums and libraries. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.


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