Louis Gustave BINGER
Du Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi[From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea through the land of the Kong and the Mossi]
Hachette|Paris 1892|19.6 x 28.4 cm|Relié
First complete edition of this major work in Africanist literature (cf. Bibliography of Côte d'Ivoire, 286. Not listed in Bruel, Bibliography of French Equatorial Africa. Lorentz, XIV, 215.)
This book contains an overall map, numerous detailed sketches, and one hundred and seventy-six wood engravings based on the drawings of Riou. Bindings in half cherry morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with cold-tooling, a small tear at the top of one joint, paper-covered boards, some light rubbing to the boards, endpapers and pastedowns made of marbled paper, corners slightly bumped, gilt edges, period bindings.
This exploration mission ordered by Faidherbe left B
€1,000