[Jouve, Joseph-Baptiste]

FIRST EDITION, 12mo (150 x 85mm.), 2 volumes, half-titles, with errata on verso of final leaf of each volume, contemporary mottled sheep, spine tooled in gilt, marbled edges, leaves with minor browning, bottom corner of E5 missing, worming to preliminary leaves of vol. 2, binding lightly worn with repairs to spine, upper covers bowed

Collegio Bisuntino, presentation bookplate to Simon Vautherin

Cordier, Sinica 629-630; Lust 436

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First edition of Jouve's history of the conquest of China by the Manchus. It was written under the pseudonym Vojeu de Brunem. "Cordier deduced that the pseudonym was a mixture of an anagram and four other letters. The anagram stood for Father Joseph d'Embrun, i.e. Joseph Baptiste Jouve who was born in Embrum" (Lust).