Edmond JURIEN DE LA GRAVIÈRE
Voyage en Chine, et dans les mers et archipels de cet Empire pendant les années 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850[Travel in China, and in the Seas and Archipelagos of that Empire during the Years 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850]
Delevingne et Callewaert|Ixelles-lez-Bruxelles s. d. [1855]|11.8 x 16.4 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
Belgian edition reproducing the text of the original edition published in Paris by Charpentier in 1854, issued here in only two volumes.
Illustrated with 6 plates hors-texte, including 3 engraved frontispieces and 3 views (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 2118.)
Contemporary half black shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind fillets and gilt garlands, rubbing to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners worn, small chips to the edges, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
The map present in the original edition was not included by the Belgian publishers, although the engravings are specific to this issue.
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€650