Ventes live - Lot 534
[Africa]
À travers le continent mystérieux [...].
Paris, Hachette, 1879
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Description du lot
2 vol., 8vo (text n.c., foxing, sometimes extensive, tear without loss and others strengthened in fold. map of vol. I, one without loss in last fold. map of vol. II, stain to lower corners at end of vol. I).
Contemp. half red shagreen with red buckram corners, marbled paper boards, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands (rubbed, lack of leather to lower cover of vol. II).
First French edition by Henriette Loreau of Stanley's Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa between 1874 and 1877. Illustrated with 2 portraits of Stanley, 78 full-page pl., 9 maps and in-text ill.
Prov. J. Cordonnier-Canon, bookbinder (label).