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De Saint-Louis a Tripoli par le Lac Tchad : voyage au travers du Soudan et du Sahara accompli pendant les années 1890-91-92

Monteil, P.-L. (Parfait-Louis), 1855-1925 · 1895 · Paris : F. Alcan · 17 pictures

A travel narrative published in Paris in 1895 by Parfait-Louis Monteil, recounting his 1890-92 journey from Saint-Louis across the Sudan and Sahara to Tripoli via Lake Chad. The four plates are rotated engravings showing caravan processions, a lone rider under a pale moon on open sand, and a mounted figure with figures on a riverbank. Designers might take from them the tonal, dusky engraved style and the compositional device of a small figure set against vast flat terrain.

Africa, French-speaking West -- Description and travel · Libya -- Description and travel

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