Voyage en Chine, et dans les mers et archipels de cet Empire pendant les années 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850

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.

Published after the convention of 22 August 1852 governing the publication of French books in Belgium, this issue nonetheless resembles the productions and practices of the counterfeiters of Outre-Quiévrain between 1815 and 1850...

The future admiral Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (1812-1892) was then a corvette captain and commanded the corvette La Bayonnaise.