CAILLIÉ, René. - Lot 87

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CAILLIÉ, René. - Lot 87
CAILLIÉ, René. Journal d'un voyage à Tembouctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale, précédé d'observations faites chez les Maures Braknas, les Nalous et d'autres peuples ; during the years 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828. Paris, A l'Imprimerie Royale, 1830. 3 volumes in-8, XII pp.- 475 pp. ; 426 pp. and 404 pp. 1 f. errata. Contemporary half olive calf with small corners, smooth spine romantically decorated with gilt or blind roulettes and fillets, gilt title, speckled edges (wear to spines and minor rubbing, spines a little faded and rubbed, minor foxing, 5 plates lacking). Rare first edition of this fascinating travelogue, considered to be the most important on Africa in the 19th century. René Caillié (1799-1838) was the first European explorer to return alive from Timbuktu, then off-limits to Christians, after crossing the Sahara from Niger to Morocco. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author, signed Couché, on the frontispiece of volume I. Gay, 2748. In French in the text, 243.
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