Gustave BORGNIS-DESBORDES
[TONKIN] Ensemble de 59 lettres autographes signées et adressées à sa famille[TONKIN] Collection of 59 autograph letters signed and addressed to his family]
Sans nom d'éditeur|Paris • No Location 1886-1887|13.7 x 21.2 cm|En feuilles
A collection of 59 manuscript letters sent to his family representing approximately 180 pages, mostly octavo, most written on mourning paper, sometimes on letterheads notably from the Ministry of the Navy.
The collection is contained in a modern red cloth box with a black title label.
A Polytechnique graduate and marine artillery officer, Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes (1839-1900) is known for having led, from 1880 to 1883, three expeditionary columns across Upper Senegal and Upper Niger, these operations having enabled the construction of several military forts, a railway and a telegraph line of more than seven hundred kilometers linking Bakel (on the Senegal) to Bamako. He then
€4,500