Consulter la cote et le prix de Hottot, 1884

Description : Hottot (Robert, 1884-1939). An original illustrated manuscript diary by Hottot of his expedition Hottot (Robert, 1884-1939). French explorer and collector. An original illustrated manuscript diary by Hottot of his expedition in association with the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, along the Congo River to Lake Chad, 1908-1909, mostly written in diary form in 13 fascicules, beginning 12 March [1908] and ending 30 January [1909], written in blue ink in a neat hand in French on rectos and versos of ruled leaves with 38 lines to a page, including 9 pen and ink maps and plans plus approximately 80 vignette sketches of ethnographical interest, plus tools and artefacts, a few with watercolour, 6 letters to Hottot, also in French, bound in, along with a real photo postcard and a photograph of a group of men and women (possibly not related to the expedition), a total of approximately 314 pages, occasional spotting and soiling, some heavier staining to leaves of the second and third fascicules not affecting legibility or strength of paper, some fascicules with original wrappers with inscription in Hottot's hand, a few near-contemporary marginal repairs to wrappers, the collection bound chronologically with an undated thirteenth fascicule at end in contemporary plain brown morocco, slightly scuffed, 225 x 175 mm QTY: (1) NOTE: An important original account of some 70,000-100,000 words that includes scientific and ethnographic observations, details of hunting and animals, vocabulary notes in the diary account of the expedition. The French explorer and collector Robert Hottot made several long expeditions through Africa and the Far East during his twenties. This Congo expedition was his third one made to central Africa and had on this occasion the endorsement of the French government. The expedition's aim was the exploration of the Kanem region east of Lake Chad, an area largely uncharted by Africa's colonial powers up to that time. The expedition lasted nearly fourteen months and its members faced difficult conditions and hostile threats as they travelled overland and by river from Brazzaville to Lake Chad, some two thousand kilometres through what is now the People's Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic and Chad. Hottot was accompanied by three other men on the expedition: Albert Guinard who returned home after falling ill shortly after the expedition began, Léon Poutrin who acted as doctor and later published several contributions to African ethnography, and Georges Barbat who did not survive the expedition. A large collection of photographs, equipment and documents (including diaries kept by Robert Hottot from 4 June 1906 to 2 March 1908) relating to the expedition was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, in 1994. Objects collected by Hottot are also held by the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, the British Museum, London, and the Natural History Museum, London. This diary has been in private hands in England for over fifty years.
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