Lot no. 6
BARROW (John). Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique fait dans les années 1797 et 1798. Paris, Dentu, 1801; 2 vol. in-8 (192 x 123 mm), marbled basane, smooth spines decorated with gilt rosettes (period bindings). First French edition, translated and published by Louis de Grandpré, a sailor and traveller himself, author of a Voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique and a Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale (see no. 33). It contains a large folded map of the Cape of Good Hope colony and a folding table on the species of wood growing in South Africa. A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE IN ELEGANT BINDINGS (some wear to two sections).
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