Auguste Chevalier - La forêt et les bois du Gabon - 1917

Auguste Chevalier. Useful Plants of French Tropical Africa. The Forests and Woods of Gabon. Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1917, 468 pages and 28 plates

A small octavo volume (250x160 mm), half cloth with corners, smooth spine, red leather title label (bindings of the period). Hinges damaged, spine detached from the binding. Interior fresh, no foxing. Covers preserved.

Original edition; well complete with the 28 plates

In this work, the botanist and agronomist Auguste Chevalier provides a detailed inventory of Gabon’s forests and their woody species. He describes the main tree species, their botanical characteristics, their mechanical properties, and their industrial uses, while studying the distribution of forest formations, the conditions of exploitation, and the economic prospects of the timber sector.

Based on field observations, this volume of the series Useful Plants of French Tropical Africa constitutes a major reference for knowledge of Gabon’s forest resources and equatorial Africa at the beginning of the 20th century.