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ROCHET d'HERICOURT (Charles-Xavier). Voyage sur la côte orientale de la mer Rouge, dans le pays d'Adel et le royaume de Choa. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841. In-8, half-brown calf, ornate smooth spine, black calf title page, marbled edges (period binding). Uncommon first edition, illustrated with 12 lithographed plates (portrait, views, objects and tools), and a large fold-out map. A merchant and adventurer, Rochet d'Héricourt was the first to open the Choa route, the shortest route between the Gulf of Aden and central Ethiopia. Pages 371 to 432 contain a collection of Arabic words, amharas and gallas commonly used in conversation. A good copy with a signed autograph letter from the author to "Monsieur Eyries, membre de l'Institut". A writer, translator of travel accounts and geographer, Jean-Baptiste Eyriès founded the Annales des Voyages with Conrad Malte-Brun in 1807. Dry-stamped Journu family coat-of-arms on one flyleaf. The Journu family is a surviving member of the French nobility. Its members include many Bordeaux merchants and shipowners. Originally from Villefranche-sur-Saône, they moved to Lyon and then Bordeaux in the early 18th century. She began trading and outfitting ships for the Indies and West Indies, and quickly gained a distinguished place in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. Some brown spots.

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ROCHET d'HERICOURT (Charles-Xavier). Voyage sur la côte orientale de la mer Rouge, dans le pays d'Adel et le royaume de Choa. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841. In-8, half-brown calf, ornate smooth spine, black calf title page, marbled edges (period binding). Uncommon first edition, illustrated with 12 lithographed plates (portrait, views, objects and tools), and a large fold-out map. A merchant and adventurer, Rochet d'Héricourt was the first to open the Choa route, the shortest route between the Gulf of Aden and central Ethiopia. Pages 371 to 432 contain a collection of Arabic words, amharas and gallas commonly used in conversation. A good copy with a signed autograph letter from the author to "Monsieur Eyries, membre de l'Institut". A writer, translator of travel accounts and geographer, Jean-Baptiste Eyriès founded the Annales des Voyages with Conrad Malte-Brun in 1807. Dry-stamped Journu family coat-of-arms on one flyleaf. The Journu family is a surviving member of the French nobility. Its members include many Bordeaux merchants and shipowners. Originally from Villefranche-sur-Saône, they moved to Lyon and then Bordeaux in the early 18th century. She began trading and outfitting ships for the Indies and West Indies, and quickly gained a distinguished place in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. Some brown spots.

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