1900 WORLD'S FAIR - THE FRENCH COLONIES - Lot 68

1900 WORLD'S FAIR - THE FRENCH COLONIES 3 volumes in 3 vols. in-8, red half-chagrin, spine ribbed, DC (Drake del Castillo) gilded on tail. 1) MILLE Pierre, Notice sur la Côte d'Ivoire. Guinea - Sudan - Senegal - Dahomey. Paris, Ministère des Colonies, 1900. 2) Notice sur la Nouvelle-Calédonie: ses richesses, son avenir. Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1900. 3) DUBOIS Marcel, TERRIER Auguste, Un siècle d'expansion coloniale. Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1902. Fold-out maps and out-of-text photos. Wear to bindings. Paper yellowed. One map missing from Ivory Coast vol. Copy from the library of Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855-1904), famous botanist, with his label on each volume. He owned the Château de Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot (Indre), where he died.