Les Puits artésiens du Sahara. Mémoire lu à la Société de géographie de Paris dans la séance générale du 16 décembre 1866 (Troisième discours sur les rapports entre la géographie et l'économie politique)

First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Bulletin de la Société géographique de Paris.

Copies recorded in the CCFr only at the BnF, BULAC, and Tarbes libraries.

Half hazel shagreen binding with corners, smooth spine slightly faded with minor rubbing, boards, endpapers and pastedowns in olive-green paper, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved; modern binding.

The Fourierist Armand-Jules Duval (1813–1870), an influential member of the Société de géographie, was a staunch advocate of the colonisation of Algeria.

He had himself lived in the colony from 1847 to 1862, overseeing the fortunes of an agricultural quasi-phalanstery at Saint-Denis-du-Sig (now Sig, in the Oran region).

Some occasional light foxing.

Autograph presentation inscription by Jules-Armand Duval to Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat (1805–1873), then Minister of Algeria and the Colonies (1859–1867), on the upper cover.