A travers le continent mystérieux. Découverte des sources méridionales du Nil, circumnavigation du lac Victoria et du lac Tanganika, descente du fleuve Livingstone ou Congo jusqu'à l'Atlantique [...]. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais [...] par Mme H. Loreau et contenant 9 cartes et 150 gravures.

2 vol., 8vo (some foxing, ink stains on pp. 287-294 of vol. I).

Contemp. half red shagreen by Ch. Magnier, covers of blind-ruled red buckram, gilt ruled spines with raised bands, a.e.g. (some sm. traces of use). Good copy.

1st French ed. by Henriette Loreau of Stanley's Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa between 1874 and 1877. Illustrated with 2 portraits of Stanley, 78 full-page pl., 10 maps (2 in fine) and ill. in text.
Prov. Pierre Daye, i.e. the Belgian journalist (1892-1960), supporter of the Rexist Party, who exiled himself to Argentina after World War II (bookpl.). - Castiaux bookshop, Lille (label).