HORNEMANN Fréderic-Conrad. Travels in the interior of Africa - Lot 77

HORNEMANN Fréderic-Conrad. Travels in the interior of Africa (...) during the years 1797, 1798. Translated from English. Paris, chez André, an XI, 1802. In 8 full contemporary basane, smooth spine decorated. Roulette on covers. 2 folding maps. First French translation, made directly from the English, and preceding by one year the version given by Louis-Mathieu Langlès partly from the German original. Friedrich Konrad Hornemann (1772-1801) had been living in Egypt since February 1797, and on September 5, 1798 joined a caravan returning from the Hajj to North Africa, posing as a young Muslim to reach the oases of Siwa, Aujilla and Mourzouq. He lived there until June 1799, when he reached Tripoli, from where he sent an account of his adventures to London.