Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; Performed

by Command of the French Government, in the Year 1818 by West Africa, G. Mollien, T. E. Bowdish, Senegal

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First edition

London: Henry Colburn & Co., 1820. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 27cm . Half-bound in tan calf and marbled paper, rebacked with original spine laid down; brown endpapers; xii ,378, 2 pp; one page publisher's ads at rear; folding map and seven uncolored aquatint plates. With a vocabulary list at rear. Bookplate of Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville, a Conservative MP in the 1840s.

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