GALLIENI, Joseph Simon [1849-1916]Biblio.com
Joseph-Simon GALLIENIBiblio.com
Mission dans le Haut-Niger et à Ségou
188388676Paris: Société de géographie 1883. Fine. Rare original edition enriched with an autograph inscription signed by Gallieni Société de géographie Paris 1883 13 x 22.6 cm Relié 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. Société de géographie hardcover
