Histoire Generale Des Voyages Par Dumont D'Urville D'Orbigny Eyries Et A. Jacobs - Volume 4

This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the work of recent French explorers for a readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. Volume 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs (180262) an archivist and palaeographer drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyris (17671846). Eyris was a founder member of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Asiatic Society trained in botany and mineralogy an accomplished linguist and seasoned traveller who wrote edited and translated a substantial number of works on geography travel and exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne''s collection this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings.