[CONGO] AUGOUARD, Monseigneur. 28 Années au Congo. - Lot 61

[CONGO] AUGOUARD, Monseigneur. 28 Années au Congo. Poitiers, chez M. l'abbé Augouard, s.d. (1905). 2 volumes, small in-8, stapled, uncut. XIV - 533 ; 648 pages. 2 black frontispiece portraits, a few black photographs out of text. Covers soiled and blackened, rubber band tears on the first cover of the first volume and on the second cover of the second volume, tear on the cover of the first volume. Letters from Monseigneur Augouard to his parents, recounting his experience as a missionary bishop in the Congo. Interesting document on French Catholic missions in Africa at the end of the 19th century. Prize book awarded to Paul Fouquières, first prize in German, on July 18, 1912, by A. Chauvin, director of the École Massillon, Paris. Fair condition, interior well preserved.