LOT 3166
24th April 2024
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LOT 3166
GOLBERRY, Silvester Meinrad Xavier. Travels in Africa. Performed During the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787, in the Western Countries of This Continent… translated by William Mudford. London: M. Jones, 1803. 2 vols., first English edition, 12mo (176 x 101mm.) 3 engraved folding maps, 7 engraved plates, 14pp. ‘Index’ to rear of volume two, errata verso last leaf. (Toning, occasional light spotting, short closed tear to B2 of volume two.) Contemporary calf (extremities rubbed, lacking lettering pieces to spines). Note: Louis XVI, irritated by Captain Cook’s naval exploits for England, encouraged Golberry to travel to Africa. At the end of his account, Golberry celebrates the end of French slavery in Africa. However, Napoleon soon restored it (2).
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