JOURNAL des VoYAGES-1885-prussian hermann von wissmann

dec      13 ,    1885          # 440        JOURNAL  DES  VOYAGES  

french language weekly magazine  - very good condition , disbound , not ex libris,  nice and flat , pages are supple, but are starting to brown and brittle on the edges, mild foxing - 20 numbered pages , 9 x 12 inches , a fascinating and sensational magazine - an excellent scholarly resource for a historian or ethnologist, covering wars , polar explorations, early aviation, sports, hunting and strange customs and rituals of the tribes of asia and africa etc. 

Journal des Voyages: Famous French weekly magazine which started in 1875 as "Sur Terre & Mer" [On Land & On Sea], then took its definitive title in 1877. The Journal des Voyages was chauvinistic, xenophobic, and yet surprisingly visionary in tone. It serialized novels by Louis Boussenard, Paul d'Ivoi, René Thévenin, Albert Bonneau, Maurice Champagne, G. Le Wailly, Capitaine Danrit, and many others. Its publishing history spanned over seventy years

table of contents / engravings

• cover -  lieutenant hermann von wissmann in africa
•  articles 
•  the african adventures of prussian lieutenant hermann von wissman - 3 page article
• 2 page size engraving - a cavalry battle - from the story tashkent to karachi
• the population of the villages of burma   
• illustrated serialized stories
• from tashkent to karachi via samarkand
• les mangeurs de feu
• au pays des tigres
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