Lot n° 318
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"Le Ragle ou Hallucination du Désert" by Comte d'Escayrac de - Lot 318
"Le Ragle ou Hallucination du Désert" by Comte d'Escayrac de Lauture, Paris, Dumaine Klincksieck Libraires, 1855, first edition, stapled pamphlet, 30 p (16 x 25.5 cm, cover soiled, ). This is a memoir of sensory hallucinations observed by the author in the desert, addressed to the Academy of Sciences in Cairo (Pierre Henri Stanislas d'Escayrac de Lauture, 1826-1868, explorer and geographer, friend of Ferdinand de Lesseps, was to die as a result of his captivity in China during the Second Opium War), followed by the Academy's report by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Milne Edwards and Duméril.
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