‎[VOYAGES, AFRIQUE] - BINGER (Capitaine) - ‎
‎DU NIGER AU GOLFE DE GUINÉE par le pays de Kong et le Mossi. ‎

‎Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie, 1892-1892; grand in-8, 513-416 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Les 2 volumes. Très bon état (cuir un peu frotté) dos a 5 nerfs complet en deux volumes texte très frais (superbe) un feuillet titre qlq rousseurs sur tome 2vol. I with an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece, and 119 figures in the text comprising 105 illustrations from wood engravings of which 35 are full-page, and 14 sketch-maps and plans, vol. II with 96 figures in the text comprising 76 illustrations from wood engravings of which 26 are full-page, 6 sketch-maps, 5 full-page maps, 5 pages of topographical profiles (3 to the page), 4 pages illustrating tattoo markings, and a large folding map with details in colour, roy. 8vo., pp. 513, 416, contemporary half morocco with raised bands, marbled boards and contrasting marbled end-papers, t.e.g., some light foxing throughout, faint staining along the upper margin of a few leaves in the second volume, but otherwise a very good and most attractive copy of a very scarce work. Louis-Gustave Binger's great work should need no introduction, and yet it seems to have been relatively under-employed as a source for the period. The reason for this is simple: it is a very scarce work, and, to judge from the comments in contemporary or early twentieth century accounts, this seems to have been the case almost since its date of publication: the Encyclopédie Coloniale et Maritime of 1949, for example, was by that year calling it rare (volume I, p. 81). Binger had already been in West Africa for a number of years before he undertook the daring mission which forms the subject of the book and was a key agent of the French imperial drive. His career in French West Africa flourished, and he went on to become Governor of the Ivory Coast and one of the great European administrators in Africa - a true Proconsul.Brasseur 2599: "Relation de voyage extrêmement précieuse."Cardinall 762: "The earliest account by a European of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast which the author crossed from N.E. to S.W."Joucla 883. Seydou 279 - en bel état - ouvrage contenant une carte d'ensemble, de nombreux croquis de détail et cent soixante-seize gravues sur bois d'après les dessins de Riou.‎

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‎Très bon état (cuir un peu frotté) dos a 5 nerfs complet en deux volumes texte très frais (superbe) un feuillet titre qlq rousseurs sur tome 2vol. I with an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece, and 119 figures in the text comprising 105 illustrations from wood engravings of which 35 are full-page, and 14 sketch-maps and plans, vol. II with 96 figures in the text comprising 76 illustrations from wood engravings of which 26 are full-page, 6 sketch-maps, 5 full-page maps, 5 pages of topographical profiles (3 to the page), 4 pages illustrating tattoo markings, and a large folding map with details in colour, roy. 8vo., pp. 513, 416, contemporary half morocco with raised bands, marbled boards and contrasting marbled end-papers, t.e.g., some light foxing throughout, faint staining along the upper margin of a few leaves in the second volume, but otherwise a very good and most attractive copy of a very scarce work. Louis-Gustave Binger's great work should need no introduction, and yet it seems to have been relatively under-employed as a source for the period. The reason for this is simple: it is a very scarce work, and, to judge from the comments in contemporary or early twentieth century accounts, this seems to have been the case almost since its date of publication: the Encyclopédie Coloniale et Maritime of 1949, for example, was by that year calling it rare (volume I, p. 81). Binger had already been in West Africa for a number of years before he undertook the daring mission which forms the subject of the book and was a key agent of the French imperial drive. His career in French West Africa flourished, and he went on to become Governor of the Ivory Coast and one of the great European administrators in Africa - a true Proconsul.Brasseur 2599: "Relation de voyage extrêmement précieuse."Cardinall 762: "The earliest account by a European of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast which the author crossed from N.E. to S.W."Joucla 883. Seydou 279 - en bel état - ouvrage contenant une carte d'ensemble, de nombreux croquis de détail et cent soixante-seize gravues sur bois d'après les dessins de Riou.‎