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Africa - GORDON LAING (Alexander). Voyage dans le Timanni, le Kouranko et le Soulimana, contrées de l'Afrique occidentale, fait en 1822, translated from English by MM. Eyriès and de Larenaudière (...) ; précédé d'un essai sur les progrès de la géographie de l'intérieur de l'Afrique, et sur les principaux voyages de découvertes qui y rattachent, par M. de Larenaudière. With a map and eight plates. Paris, Delaforest, Arthus Bertrand, 1826. In-8, lxv-432 pp. with a folding map and 8 lithographed plates, paperback with printed cover. Some foxing. First edition of the French translation of Travels through the Timanee (...) to the sources of the Roskelle and Niger, published in London in 1825. From the English bases in Sierra Leone, where Alexander Gordon Laing (1793-1826) was stationed with his unit, he made this journey into Mandingo country, sent by Governor Charles MacCarthy both to open up trade links and to facilitate the abolition of the slave trade, which Great Britain had championed since the Congress of Vienna. His report contains the first accurate information on the sources of the Niger (which he failed to reach, however). His expedition and death in Timbuktu in 1826 are another story... (Gay 2845.)

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Africa - GORDON LAING (Alexander). Voyage dans le Timanni, le Kouranko et le Soulimana, contrées de l'Afrique occidentale, fait en 1822, translated from English by MM. Eyriès and de Larenaudière (...) ; précédé d'un essai sur les progrès de la géographie de l'intérieur de l'Afrique, et sur les principaux voyages de découvertes qui y rattachent, par M. de Larenaudière. With a map and eight plates. Paris, Delaforest, Arthus Bertrand, 1826. In-8, lxv-432 pp. with a folding map and 8 lithographed plates, paperback with printed cover. Some foxing. First edition of the French translation of Travels through the Timanee (...) to the sources of the Roskelle and Niger, published in London in 1825. From the English bases in Sierra Leone, where Alexander Gordon Laing (1793-1826) was stationed with his unit, he made this journey into Mandingo country, sent by Governor Charles MacCarthy both to open up trade links and to facilitate the abolition of the slave trade, which Great Britain had championed since the Congress of Vienna. His report contains the first accurate information on the sources of the Niger (which he failed to reach, however). His expedition and death in Timbuktu in 1826 are another story... (Gay 2845.)

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