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MOLLIEN, Gaspard Théodore, comte de.
Travels in Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia, in 1818. ... Translated from the French.London, R. Philips & Co., 1820. 8vo in 4s. With an engraved folding map and four engraved illustration plates. Modern half maroon calf, marbled sides.
ix, (1 blank), 128 pp. Lownes, English Literature, p. 1582; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (3 copies); cf. Gay, Bibl. Afrique 2910 (French eds.); Kainbacher, Erforsch. Afrikas, p. 277 (German eds.).An account of a shipwreck at Cape Blanco on the African coast and a successful 1818 attempt to discover the sources of the rivers Gambia and Senegal, by one of the earliest explorers of the West African interior. Published in French, English and German editions in 1820, it gives much geographical and anthropological information in diary-style entries. At the end are an itinerary, an English-Iolof-Poule and an English-Serrere vocabulary, and a short list of African terms commonly used by Europeans in Africa.A very good copy, with a small tear in the map and some foxing in the other plates. A first-hand account of an early journey into the African interior.
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