Les Voyages du Sieur Le Maire aux Iles Canaries Cap-Verd, Senegal, et Gambie.; Sous Monsieur Dancourt, Directeur General de la Compagnie Roiale d'Affrique.
Paris: Jaques Collombat, 1695.
[8], 9-213, [22] pages with text in French. Illustrated with 1 folding map (Brest Harbor) and 5 other engraved plates. Rubricated title page with engraved vignette. 12mo, full contemporary calf with blind-stamped covers and gilt spine (well-rubbed and spine chipped at foot; stain on front endpaper and gutter of title, which is also chipped at fore-edge; library giftplate on pastedown). Paris: Jaques Collombat, 1695. Rare. WITH a second softcover volume containing the English translation "Voyage to the Canaries Cape Verd, and the Coast of Africa under the Command of M. Dancourt, 1682". Slim 12mo, printed wrappers (chipped edges and with new cloth spine). Llimited edition, printed in Edinburgh 1887.
Jacques Joseph Le Maire's was a physician for La Compagnie d'Afrique. This account of his voyage to West Africa and the Atlantic islands off the coast of Africa is an interesting source for the study of 17th-century West Africa, and aspects of the transatlantic slave trade. Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First
Language: French; English
Price: $1,250.00
Item #313726