Lot no. 178
BARROW (John). Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique, fait dans les années 1797 et 1798. Paris, Dentu, 1801. 2 volumes in-8, marbled basane, smooth spine decorated, twisted edges, speckled edges (period binding). First French edition, translated and published by Louis de Grandpré, author of Voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique and Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale. It contains a large folded map of the Cape Colony and a folding table of the species of wood growing in South Africa.
A very fine copy, remarkably preserved.
Gay, n°2996 - Monglond, V, 366.
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