M. d'Avezac - Iles de l'Afrique - 1848

Very interesting edition enriched with about 100 plates of this captivating and edifying work, belonging to the collection "The Universe: History and Description of All Peoples".

It contains the three parties on the African islands as well as the description of Malta and the Goze -

This edition offers a historical and geographical description of the African islands, with precise and surprising details about the human, cultural, religious, linguistic, artistic, and scientific aspects of these islands -

It is richly adorned with exquisite plates illustrating the landscapes and inhabitants of the islands described -

Content

- African islands of the Mediterranean - General views of the Mediterranean. Islets off the Libyan coast, the Syrtics, - Pelagian Islands.
- Malte and the Goze.
- Old Atlantic traditions. Azores Archipelago, Madeira Archipelago, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Guinea Archipelago, the Atlantic Sporades (St. Helena).
- African Islands of the Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Bourbon and Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega, the Seychelles, the Almirante Islands, the Arab Islands, Islands of the Eritrean Sea -

Mr. d'Avezac - Islands of Africa - 1848 - Firmin Didot Frères -
126+300+iv+180pp

Good condition of the binding, volume in its antique half brown morocco leather, marbled boards, wear from use, headcaps, corners and joints worn, gilt-edged (jaspé) edges, spine with raised bands ornamented, gilded lettering on a piece of red and green morocco.

Good interior condition, foxing and some damp stains, text in two columns, the work enriched with superb black-and-white plates hors texte, marbled endpapers in good condition -

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