Live auction - Lot 638
Lettres sur le Congo : Récit d'un voyage scientifique [...].
Paris, C. Reinwald, 1889
Hammer price: €
400
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: viii-724 pp.; 22 pl. (first pp. torn and repaired with tape).
Mod. cloth binding. Nice clean copy.
Travelogue along the Congo River with geological details and the description of lithic artefacts. Ill. with 11 pl. in-text, 6 folding maps and 5 full-page pl. Dupont (Dinant 1841-1911) was a Belgian geologist, prehistorian and director of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
Ref. BL. - BnF. - Opac KBR.