[AFRICA CHAD] Harry ALIS PSEUDO. DE JULES-HIPPOLYTE PERCHER/ - Lot 560

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[AFRICA CHAD] Harry ALIS PSEUDO. DE JULES-HIPPOLYTE PERCHER/ - Lot 560
[AFRICA CHAD] Harry ALIS PSEUDO. DE JULES-HIPPOLYTE PERCHER/ DYBOWSKI / LENFANT - Lot of 3 French missions to Chad. 1: Harry ALIS pseudonym of Jules-Hippolyte PERCHER - À la conquête du Tchad. With 29 engravings and 4 maps. Paris, Hachette, 1891. Large in-8: 296, [1-1bl.] pp. (pronounced brown spots). Bound in contemporary red half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed with flowers, gilt head. Corners dulled. Illustrations: frontispiece portrait of the author, 28 full-page illustrations (some drawn by Paule Crampel from photographs), 1 map of the French Congo, 1 folded map (torn & yellowed, detached) of the course of the Oubanghi between the last French post and the Kouango River, drawn in October 1890, 1 map of the Kaarta, 1 map tracing the extension of the French Sudan (2 maps on the same plate), 1 map of the French Sudan. First edition of Paul Crampel's account of the Mission, also featuring Lieutenant Mizon, the Monteil and Ménard missions. 2: Jean DYBOWSKI - La route du Tchad: du Loango au Chari. Illustrated with 136 unpublished drawings, by Mme Paule Crampel, MM. E. Loëvy, Montader, Clément and Bineteau, based on the author's photographs, drawings, watercolors and documents brought back by him. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1893. Large in-8: [4], 381 pp. (several rare brown spots, one or two pages slightly and evenly browned). Contemporary red half-chagrin boards, gilt title on upper cover, spine ribbed, gilt edges. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author. The 136 illustrations are divided into 131 figures, 6 of which are full-page; 1 fold-out map including: the itineraries travelled in unexplored regions by the Jean Dybowski Mission during the years 1891-1892; 1 general map of the itineraries travelled, the profile of Bembé's itinerary on the Oubangui at Pic Crampel. Also 2 small tables of thermometric and barometric observations. 3: Eugène LENFANT - La Grande route du Tchad, mission de la Société de géographie. Preface by M. Le Myre de Vilers,... Introduction by Maurice Albert,... Paris, Hachette, 1905. Large in-8: [6], xiv, [1-1bl.], 287, [1] pp. Illustrations: frontispiece portrait, title vignette, 26 full pages, 7 portraits in text, 76 in-texto (scenes of local life, sites, natives...), 1 map of Cdt Lenfant's itinerary in text, 1 large folding color map of the Niger-Bénoué-Tchad Mission: field of exploration and countries traversed (detached, minor restorations). Bound in contemporary red half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt title, gilt head. Spine detached.
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