Brazza by CHAMBRUN, Géneral de [Jacques Aldebert de Pineton] - 1930

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1930. 1949 Printing. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial card wrappers bound in; [8],253pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of plates, folding map bound in rear. Light shelf wear, bottom half of half title torn away, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Near Very Good. Biography of Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1952-1905), whose passage along the Congo River would lead to the French colonization of Central Africa.