MORIENVAL, Henri. La Guerre du Dahomey. Journal de campagne d'un sous-lieutenant d'infanterie de marine. Edition illustrée de 32 gravures d'après des croquis pris sur place. [1893].

First edition.
An account—presented as a diary kept by an officer of the expeditionary force—of the 1892 military campaign waged by the Marine Infantry in Dahomey against King Behanzin, who sought to oppose the French protectorate over the country. A rare publisher's binding from the popular Hatier series "Bibliothèque anecdotique et littéraire.".