[Travel] - Cullard, W.

3 volumes (on 4) folio (16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in; 420 x 315 mm); original maunscript in French, illustrated with 190 original watercolours, all signed G[uillaume].C[ullard], in red ink and most of them with autograph caption in red ink. Vol. I: title page, 29 pages, table and 49 original watercolours (including 1 map and 20 full-page illustrations); vol. II: title, 38 pages, table and 74 original watercolours (including 1 map, 27 full-page illustrations and a painted ideogram) and an example of Annamite writing on a leaf laid down; Vol. III: title, 34 pages (misnumbered 36), table and 67 original watercolours (including 3 maps, 28 full-page illustrations and a painted ideogram), and, on 6 stripes of paper with examples of Cambodian writings; early 20th century binding, probably English, half beige calf. The volumes  are in good general condition, the two first volumes sheets hinged to linen guards, the third volume sheets hinged on paper guards, the full-page watercolours are laid down on card, some serpentes protecting the full-page watercolours torn, some missing, some leaves detached or partially detached, light foxing and spotting. 

he volumes are in good general condition, the two first volumes sheets hinged to linen guards, the third volume sheets hinged on paper guards, the full-page watercolours are laid down on card, some serpentes protecting the full-page watercolours torn, some missing, some leaves detached or partially detached, light foxing and spotting.
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Unknow, unpublished diary of a 19th century French officer travelling to the French colonies in South-East Asia

The manuscript described the journey of Guillaume/William Cullard, a French Navy officer, from Aden to Saigon. He gives information about several of his trips, from the life on board the ship he travels in, to the place he visites, people and authorities in the different countries he's been to, the ways and means. 

In the beginning of the first volume, he writes about facts he "already explained in the first volume" which means the relation is incomplete even the volumes are numbered 1 to 2. The manuscript is intensively illustrated with about 200 in-text and full-pages watercolours.