Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS,
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 10: Voyages au long de la côte occidentale d'Afrique, depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu'à Sierra Leona (suite).
Description: Paris, Didot, 1747. 12mo. (III)+XII+486 pp. With 2 fold. maps (Sierra Leone & Sherbro rivers) & 12 (of 14) plts. (incl. 1 fold.). Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with title label. (Corners sl. dam.; lacks plates nos. 3 & 8). VG. ¶ Incl. description of culture & customs of the inhabitants, vocabularies of the Jalof, Fouli & Mandingo peoples; descriptions of Sierra Leone by Finch (1607), Villault de Bellefond (1666), Jean Barbot (1678) & Atkins (1721); 233 pages on the natural history of the area (plants, animals).

Keywords: . Colonial expansion. Animals zoology. Natural flora botany plants Senegal Gambia West Africa. d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1600 1725


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