DU CHAILLU (Paul Belloni, 1831-1903, French Explorer in Africa)

Signature and end of an Autograph Letter Signed with some text “regard. Believe me dear Sir Roderick, yours very sincerely... my address care of G. M. Belder Esq, Carmel, Putnam County, New York State...”, 5” x 2”, no place, no date

He was a French-American traveller, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.

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Stock No:  42941      £125

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