Live auction - Lot 896
Dans la grande forêt de l'Afrique Centrale. Mon voyage au Congo et à la Mongala en 1896.
Brussels, O. Schepens & Cie, 1899
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
4to: x-115 pp. (some local minor spotting).
Decorated and gilt-stamped blue publisher's binding (only very sl. rubbed at edges). Good, clean copy.
First French ed. of "Im afrikanischen Urwald" (orig. 1898), by F. Thonner (1863-1928), Austrian traveller and botanist from Vienna. Illustrated with photogr. portrait of Thonner, 20 in-text pl. and, bound after the text ff., 86 photographic pl. showing the indigenous plants, villages and people, and the colonial buildings and plantations, and 3 col. maps, of which 1 large folding showing the itinerary of Thonner.
Ref. Opac KBR.
Prov. Ms. entry on front flyleaf.