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Voyage d'Exploration en Indo-Chine
by GARNIER, Francis
- Used
- Condition
- Both folding maps with sealed tears.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Paris: Hachette, 1885. Both folding maps with sealed tears.. Quarto, profusely illustrated with more than 200 wood engravings, two large folding colour maps; a very good copy in original quarter red morocco, spine lettered and ornately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt.
A handsome copy of the second revised edition of Garnier's famous account of the Mekong River expedition, by the publisher of the rare larger format first edition. This version is extensively illustrated with wood engravings based on the original drawings by Delaporte and has an introduction by Leon Garnier.
The most important exploration in Indochina in the nineteenth century, the Mekong Expedition followed years of lobbying, mainly on the part of Francis Garnier, who held passionate beliefs about France's "civilising mission" as well as the riches which would flow from the Mekong, in terms of trade with China. He had been a vocal, though pseudonymous, pamphleteer on the subject and became a most energetic second-in-command of the expedition. The French representative in Cambodia, Doudart de Legrée, was chosen to lead the expedition. The extraordinary expedition covered more than five thousand miles in Cambodia, Laos and Yunnan and carried out the momentous exploration of the Mekong River.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5000839
- Title
- Voyage d'Exploration en Indo-Chine
- Author
- GARNIER, Francis
- Book Condition
- Used - Both folding maps with sealed tears.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1885
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About the Seller
Hordern House Rare Books
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Surry Hills, New South Wales
About Hordern House Rare Books
Hordern House, founded by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell in 1985 and named for our original building in Sydney's Potts Point, is an internationally renowned dealership, specialising in rare books, manuscripts and paintings.Nowadays we conduct our business in the heart of Surry Hills, five minutes from the centre of Sydney. We occupy an entire floor of a converted warehouse where we have created a customised environment for our work and the display of rare books, manuscripts & paintings.Always reflected in our extensive stock of rare and select material is our specialization in voyages and travels (with a special interest in the Pacific & Australia), natural history and colour-plate material, paintings and voyage art, historical maps and manuscripts.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
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- Spine
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- Quarto
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