DOUVILLE, Jean Baptiste. Atlas du voyage au Congo et dans interieur de l'Afrique equinoxiale [fait dans les annees 1828, 1829, et 1830] par -----. Secretaire de la societe de geographie pour 1832 et membre de ....  Paris: Chez Jules Renouard Libraire Rue de Tournon No. 6 et Chez l'auteur Rue du Bac No. 77; 1832. Small folio, (ii), title leaf, table of contents leaf, large fold-out map, 20 full page lithographs with 13 having hand-coloring, (ii). Paper covered cloth boards, leather spine gilt title. FIRST edition.  $1575.00

Ex-library with nice title-page stamp and small blind-stamps on the plates. Binding in poor condition with hinges cracked. Very light foxing on some pages. Plates 5 and 6 bound out of order with # 6 printed on slightly cream-colored stock and on larger paper which is tattered at the fore-edge. Two minor unobtrusive doodles on plate 7: a cheroot added to the male figure and a few squiggles to the cache-sexe of the female (see last photo below.) Black ink smudge to the margin of plate 9. The above litany notwithstanding, a very good copy of a rare and great atlas. We do not, alas, have the text volume.

A fascinating view of Africa in the early 19th century (and an 'incunable' of lithography as well!) lacking the racist depictions common with almost all later endeavors.