.: Bruxelles, F. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 1885, in-8°, (4)nn pp + iv pp + 462 pp, sewn, orig. printed wrapper, wrapper slightly dustsoiled, with small loss of paper (1 cm²) at lower right corner of front wrapper, interior fine. Good/fine copy of the original first edition of 1885. Documents and history illustrating how King Leopold of Belgium acquired the Congo in equatorial Africa. Text in French. Livre en français.