Paul PELLIOT
En Asie centrale. Conférence faite à la Société normande de géographie le 8 novembre 1910[Central Asia. Lecture delivered at the Société normande de géographie on 8 November 1910]
Imprimerie E. Cagniard|Rouen 1911|21.2 x 26.2 cm|Relié
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Bulletin de la Société normande de géographie.
Contemporary-style Bradel binding in full burgundy cloth, spine titled lengthwise, burgundy paper endleaves and pastedowns, wrappers doubled and restored and preserved, modern binding.
Only three copies recorded in the CCF (BnF, Sainte-Geneviève, Condorcet).
This is the author’s second report delivered before a Norman audience (Pelliot had family ties to Normandy), concerning the 1906–1908 expedition to Chinese Turkestan.
It followed the Paris lecture (Trois ans dans la haute Asie, conférence de M. Paul Pelliot au grand amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne, le 10 décembre 1909).
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