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130 - LOUIS VICTOR REGIS [BLACK AFRICA]
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Estimate €8,000 - €10,000
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LOUIS VICTOR REGIS [BLACK AFRICA] Louis Théodore Victor Régis was a banker, shipowner and industrialist from Marseille (11 September 1803 – 19 March 1881). He was one of the most powerful shipowners and merchants of his time. From 1840 onwards, he established a series of trading posts along the western coasts of Africa, from Senegal to Angola, notably in Côte d’Ivoire and Dahomey. He urged the French government to extend its influence over these regions, from which he imported oilseeds used as raw materials for both the oil mills and the soap factories in Marseille. In 1862–63, the trading house thus requested the first French military intervention on land and the establishment of the short-lived protectorate of Porto-Novo. An important folio-sized account book (30 x 44 cm), in a modest leather binding containing approximately 300 sheets (27 x 40 cm) illustrated with 460 contemporary albumen prints, most in CDV format, some annotated on the sheet itself, chronicling commercial voyages to the French and Portuguese colonies in Africa, c. 1890. People and landscapes of Mozambique, Barry trading post, an exceptional series of studies of African nudes (around 50), a duplicate print of the Suez Canal, the Viceroy’s Theatre in Cairo, Mahé – Seychelles, types of Réunion, Queen of Mohéli, portraits of dignitaries, Creoles, the village of Salazie, views of waterfalls, Indian women, Hell-Bourg village in Salazie, the ‘Jardins d’Acclamation’ in Saint-Denis, Réunion, Guadeloupe, a portrait by Antoine Roussin, panoramas of South Africa, Mr Barry’s wharf, a woman suffering with elephantiasis, view from the estate of Mr Joao da Costa Soarès, the Customs Director’s villa, a group of French people in Mozambique, the Régis trading post, views of sugar mills and the church in Durban, Natal, a group of Zulus…
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About the sale The Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part I
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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