Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de

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6,000 - 9,000 GBP

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描述

Voyages a Peking, Manille et l’Île de France, faits dans l’intervalled des années 1784 à 1801. Paris: de l’imprimerie impériale, 1808
PAPER

FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes, comprising 3 volumes of text, 8vo (213 x 132mm.), and an atlas, folio (407 x 260mm.), half-titles, 92 engraved plates on 60 leaves, 6 engraved maps, 4 folding, text bound in CONTEMPORARY GREEN MOROCCO GILT BY BRADEL L’AINE (with his ticket) with ARMS OF NAPOLEON in gilt to sides, roll-tooled borders gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, atlas bound later to match, some restoration with minor loss to maps, title repaired at head

來源

Eugène de Froberville (1790-1871), library stamp on titles

出版

Cordier, Sinica 2351–2352; Löwendahl 738; Western Travellers in China 55

拍品資料及來源

A SPLENDID COPY IN A PRESENTATION BINDING BY BRADEL L’AINE. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE GEOGRAPHER AND CARTOGRAPHER EUGENE DE FROBERVILLE. The author was appointed Resident of France in China and consul at Canton in 1784. A decade later he accompanied the Dutch embassy to Peking. The plates illustrate views, architecture of palaces and pagodas, street life, gardens and costume.