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Robinson in the African desert
MIRVAL, Jean Baptiste Joseph Champagnac DE.Le Robinson des Sables du Désert, ou Voyage d'un jeune Naufragé sur les côtes et dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, offrant le tableau résumé des curiosités naturelles, des moeurs, usages et coutumes de ces contrées peu connues.      Paris, Lehuby, 1837. Sm.8vo. Contemp. richly gilt and blindstamped red morocco, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (I. ROUSSET). With illustration on steel-engraved title, woodcut publisher's vignette on printed title, and 3 full-page steel-engraved plates. VIII, 320 pp. First edition of a rare French Robinson version by Jean Baptiste Joseph Champagnac de Mirval (1796-1858), a schoolbook really, teaching on the history, geography, and natural history of Africa. But at the same time it contains an exciting story of a Robinson in the desert, for the children a pleasure to read. The plates are unsigned. Fine copy in red morocco.- (Binding sl. rubbed at corners; old owner's ms. entry on first blank).
Ullrich IV, 148 (Paris ed. of 1845); not in Gumuchian; not in NUC.
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