16 - [Africa] MARMOL CARVAJAL (Louis). Africa. With the History of the Sharifs, translated from the Spanish by Diego Torres, by the Elder Duke of Angoulême. Paris, Louis Billaine, 1667. 3 volumes in-4, contemporary brown sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. Worn caps, small leather losses, wear, missing pages in the first seven pages of Vol. I with missing text on the title page, tear with missing text on the title page of Vol. II, missing title page in Vol. III, water stains.

[Africa] MARMOL CARVAJAL (Louis). Africa. With the History of the Sharifs, translated from the Spanish by Diego Torres, by the Elder Duke of Angoulême. Paris, Louis Billaine, 1667. 3 volumes in-4, contemporary brown sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine. Worn caps, small leather losses, wear, missing pages in the first seven pages of Vol. I with missing text on the title page, tear with missing text on the title page of Vol. II, missing title page in Vol. III, water stains. First French edition, translated by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, of this important historical and geographical description of Africa, illustrated with 28 FOLD-OUT MAPS by Nicolas Sanson. A Spanish historian and traveler, Luis del Marmol Carvajal (ca. 1520–1600) spent many years in North Africa, including nearly 8 years in captivity among the Moors. He drew upon his travels and observations to produce this comprehensive account, originally published in Spanish beginning in 1573. The last part of Volume III contains, with its own title page addressed to Thomas Jolly, Paris, 1667, “The History of the Sharifs of Morocco and the Kingdoms of Morocco, Fez, Tarudant, and Other Provinces, by Diego de Torres, translated from Spanish by the Duke of Angoulême the Elder.”