Lot 1206
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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- PARK, M. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797. Avec des éclaircissemens sur la géographie de l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Major Rennell. Trad. p. J. Castéra. Paris, Dentu & Carteret, 1799. 2 vols. xii, 411; (4), 376 pp. W. 5 plates, portr. & 3 fold. maps. Cont. wrps., uncut. (1 half-ti. laid down, some foxing, margins a bit dampstained).
Cf. PMM, 253: "Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the negroes, have remained of lasting value". - Brunet IV, 376.€ 180
result € 140
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