Anecdotes africaines, depuis l'origine ou La découverte des différents royaumes qui composent l'Afrique, jusqu'à nos jours.

8vo: viii-230, 62, 60, 60, 30, 16, 80, 184 pp. (some normal brown., some faint spotting).

Contemp. quarter brown long grained calf, flat gilt spine, marbled endpapers (corners rubbed and bumped, spine sl. shaved). Uncut copy.

First and only edition by the French journalist Dubois-Fontanelle (1727-1812). Chronology and anecdotes, with individual pagination, of Egypt, Barbary, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Abyssinian, Guinea, Benin, Angola, Congo, Monomotopa, Monbaze and Quiloa, northern and southern coasts of Africa. Part of the "Anecdotes of the four parts of the world" of which "Extrait du Catalogue de Vincent", pp. 179-184, gives an overview.
Ref. Barbier I-178. - Gay 224. - BnF.