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67 2005 Congo Coquilhat C 67/2005 [Congo]. Coquilhat, C. Sur le Haut-Congo. Brussels, L. Lebègue et Cie, 1888, 533,(3)p., photogr. frontisp. w. portrait of the author, 5 fold. (partly col.) lithogr. maps, photogr./ woodengr. ills., orig. gilt hmor. w. black mor. letterpiece. - Stamps on first free endpaper, htitle and title-p.; occas. sl. foxed; sl. yellowed; lower hinge weak. Spine sunned; trifle worn along extremities. = In Belgium Coquilhat was celebrated as one of the "pioneers" of the Congo Free State. The town Équateurville (present day Mbandaka) was in his honour renamed Coquilhatville.