[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated account of the 1st automobile trip across the Sahara Desert. Paris: 1924

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(TRAVEL) Haardt, Georges-Marie and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil. LE RAID CITROEN. LA PREMIERE TRAVERSEE DU SAHARA EN AUTOMOBILE. De Touggourt a Tombouctou par l'Atlantide. Introduction de M. Andre Citroen. 16 Illustrations de Bernard Boutet de Monvel, 13 Hors-Texte, 171 Photographies, 2 Cartes-Itineraire. Paris: Librairie Plon. 1924. Lg. 4to. xviii,242,(4)pp. Illustrated with 13 photogravure plates (1, a frontispiece of the 2 authors), and numerous text half-tones. Two color folding maps are bound in at rear. A presentation copy inscribed & signed by both authors on the half-title (see note below). Publisher's deluxe binding of gilt decorated morocco, spine slightly faded, original wrappers bound in. Housed in a heavy cardboard slipcase covered in marbled paper, some chipping at edges of the slipcase.               $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
This presentation copy is inscribed to Sir Robert Thorne Corydon (1870-1925) the powerful British colonial administrator of Uganda (1918-1922) and Kenya (1922-1925).

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