MEDECINE - Société de Géographie / G. MARTIN -... Lot 960

MEDECINE - Société de Géographie / G. MARTIN - LEBOEUF - ROUBAUD / MASSON 1909. Rare and copious work: "RAPPORT de la MISSION d'ETUDES de la MALADIE du SOMMEIL AU CONGO FRANÇAIS 1906-1908". 717 pages in-text illustrations + 8 black and color lithographic plates (infectious agents) + large color fold-out map 52 x 54.5 cm. "distribution de la maladie du sommeil et des mouches Tsétsés" (distribution of sleeping sickness and tsetse flies) - Map drawn up in 1907-08 by Dr. Gustave MARTIN and Dr. LEBOEUF, physicians for colonial troops, and Dr. ROUBAUD, associate professor of natural sciences. Heavy publisher's cloth binding with decorations and inscriptions on front cover and spine. Copy with autograph letter signed by Mr. LE MYRE DE VILERS (whose photo appears full-page in the preface), president of the Société de Géographie, financier of the study mission - "To Mr. MESNIL with thanks for his invaluable assistance, Paris July 12, 1909".