LE MAIRE, J.

Les Voyages du Sieur Le Maire aux Iles Canaries Cap-Verd, Senegal, et Gambie. Sous Monsieur Dancourt,...

Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1695.

12mo. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabel with giltlettering (lettering weak). A bit rubbed. Title-page in red and black. 213,(21) pp., 1 folded engraved maps and 5 folded engraved plates. A few brownspots to outer margins. Stamps on verso of title-page.

Scarce first edition recounting Le Maire's voyage to West Africa and the Atlantic islands off the coast of Africa. Le Maire, a physician in the service of the Compagnie d'Afrique, describes the inhabitants, customs, and places that he visited. Le Maire’s work remains an important source for the study of 17th-century West Africa, interactions between Africans and Europeans, and aspects of the transatlantic slave trade.

Order-nr.: 54688