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[AFRICA] Harry ALIS / JEAN DYBOWSKI / EUGèNE LENFANT / LOUIS - Lot 365
[AFRICA] Harry ALIS / JEAN DYBOWSKI / EUGèNE LENFANT / LOUIS MONTEIL - Explorations françaises vers le lac Tchad - Missions Crampel, Dybowski, Lenfant et Monteil: set of four major exploration narratives devoted to French penetration of Chad and the routes opened up between Congo, Ubangi, Sudan, Sahara and the Chari Basin. Richly illustrated with maps, portraits, views and local scenes, these volumes document both the history of the great African missions of the late 19th century and the geographical and colonial imagination that accompanied them.
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, [1-1 bl.] 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 (drawings by Paul Crampel from photographs), 1 map of the French Congo, 1 fold-out 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 Illustrated with 136 unpublished drawings, by Mme Paule Crampel, MM.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. (some rare freckling, one or two pages lightly 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, [1-1 bl.], 287, [1] pp. Portr., figs. and maps. Bound in contemporary red half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt title, gilt head. Spine loose. Illustrations: frontispiece portrait, title vignette, 26 full pages, 7 portraits in the text, 76 in-texto (scenes of local life, sites, natives...), 1 map of Cdt Lenfant's itinerary in the text, 1 large folding color map of the Niger-Bénoué-Tchad Mission: field of exploration and countries crossed (detached, minor restorations).
4: Lieut.-Col. Parfait Louis MONTEIL - De Saint-Louis à Tripoli par le Lac Tchad : Voyage au travers du Soudan et du Sahara accompli pendant les années 1890-91-92. Preface by Viscount Melchior de Vogüe, of the Académie française. Illustrations by Riou. Paris, Félix Alcan, s.d. [ca. 1895]. In-4°, [4], x, 462, [2] pp. 108 illustrations. Publisher's red half-chagrin boards with corners, decorated top board, smooth spine, gilt title on spine and top board, gilt head. Some scuffing to spine ends, corners dulled. Illustrations include: 1 out-of-text frontispiece portrait of the author, 15 headbands, 15 tailpieces, 15 in-texto (including several portraits), 1 plan and 15 maps in the text, 46 full-page illustrations and 1 out-of-color double-page map of the itinerary. Very fresh interior.
TOGETHER 4 VOLUMES.
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