Original edition printed in a limited number of copies of this excerpt from Bulletin of the Société de géographie (1882-1883).
This text was re-edited in 1885 by Hachette.
Work illustrated with figures in the text and a large folding map at the end (Route from Médine to Nango by the Gallieni mission).
Binding in black half-shagreen, spine with five raised bands decorated with cold fillets, boards of handmade paper, preserved original covers, modern binding signed by Boichot.
Covers restored with some stains, pleasant interior condition.
Work illustrated with figures in the text and a large folding map at the end (Route from Médine to Nango by the Gallieni mission).
Joseph Gallieni (1849-1916) was sent on a mission to the banks of the Niger in 1879. It was there that he negotiated a commercial agreement between the Sultanate of Ségou and France, granting our country trade rights on the Upper Niger.
Autograph letter signed by Joseph Gallieni to his cousin Henri Périssé, dated from Fort-de-France, November 23, 1884 (after this African mission, Gallieni had been assigned to Martinique).