HECQUARD, HYACINTE.

Voyage sur la Cote et dans L'Intérieur de L'Afrique Occidentale.

Paris, Bénard et Compagnie, 1855. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Edges rubbed. Top of spine repaired. (4),409 pp., 3 large folded lithographed maps, 5 lithographed plates (incl. frontispiece).

First edition. Hecquard, a French geographer and military officer served in Africa in the 1840s, where he explored the basin of the Niger river and other parts of West Africa, particularly Senegal. His explorations gave rise to the work here offered.

Order-nr.: 54165