Dessins et peintures d'Afrique. Exécutés au cours de l'expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxième mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil.

Folio (sl. dusty).

Text: half natural leather, boards with African-like paintings on black fabric. - Plates: loose. In a portfolio in "filali" (morrocan goat leather) with leather laces (spine renewed, sl. rubbed, sm. stains, tie missing).

Luxurious edition under Lucien Vogel's supervision. Iacovleff's text is illustrated with marginal black offset sketches printed on Madagascar paper and 50 plates on 49 ff. (portraits or landscapes) on "vélin Lafuma". The painter Iacovleff (1887-1938) had been chosen by André Citroën to depict "by pencil and brush" the manners and customs of the natives during the expedition of the Black cruise (autocaterpillar crossing), which crossed the Sahara, Niger, Chad and Congo to get to Madagascar. Its aim was to study the possibilities of communication between these countries thanks to the car use and the development of luxury tourism with impact on local populations. The ethnographic studies have been entrusted to Iacovleff, the realisation of a film (which was very successful) to Léon Poirier and the collecting of animals and minerals to scientists. Issued to 1020 copies, one of the 750 traded on "Madagascar-Lafuma" (n. 479).