Sur le Haut-Congo.

8vo: 533 pp.; 63 pl. (sm. tear in map).

Contemp. half shagreen, spine with 5 raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers (joints sl. rubbed).

First ed. of this work about how Belgian colonial infrastructure was founded and managed in Haut-Congo. Ill. with 58 pl. in-text (31 full-page) and 5 folding maps. Coquilhat (1853-1891) was a Belgian soldier, explorer and colonial civil servant who finished his career as Vice Governor-General of the Congo Free State. He gave his name, Coquilhatville, to the current Mbadanka.
Prov. Hippolyte d'Ursel (1850-1937), Belgian senator (arm. bookpl.). - Family de Lichtervelde (2 arm. bookpl.). - Libr. stamp on title.