Vues de l'État indépendant du Congo.

6 ff. and 33 albumen prints, 12 x 16,4 cm, pasted on thick paper, ms. captions, numbered photographs in ink and numbered pp. in pencil.

Blue gilt decor. and gilt titled cloth folder.

Letterpress title leaf "Hommage à Sa Majesté Léopold II. Roi des Belges, Souverain de l'État indépendant du Congo" signed by A. de Macar and 5 leaves with a handwritten and numbered index of photographs of which some numbers are crossed out in pencil. The entries which are crossed out correspond with the present photographs.
Colonel Adolphe Henri Albert de Macar (1847-1918) was an officer in the Belgian army and an explorer of the African continent. He was a captain, and commanded the important station of Luluaburg alongside Léon Braconnier, who succeeded him. With Le Marinel he explored the Lualaba River in 1886. Several photos show us Macar, Braconnier and Le Marinel in Luluaburg around 1886, surrounded by the villagers and in front of the prison. Other images show us group pictures of employees of the military station, portraits of native people from tribes such as the Luba, Kuba and others, traditional dwellings in construction, a big hippopotamus, another group picture with only white people with their names in caption: Steleman, Delattre, Cap. Anderson, Waker, Doctor Wolff, Lt. Wissman, Baetman, Lt. Marinel and Baron von Schwerin, the Brazzaville military station, buildings in Manyanga, a staging post on the route from the coast to Léopoldville during the days of the Congo Free State, the capital city of the Congo Free State: Boma, the colonial settlement Banana, etc.