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[ASIA] - RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX (Félix)
Paris, Aux Archive…
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[ASIA] - RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX (Félix)
Paris, Aux Archive…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
[ASIA] - RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX (Félix)
Paris, Aux Archives du droit français, chez Clament, 1810.
Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes orientales, aux iles Philippines, à la Chine, avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807.
3 vol. in-8 (21,5 × 13,5 cm), stapled, untrimmed, pink paper covers, printed labels on spine.
First edition of this account of a voyage through India (I), the Philippines (II), Cochinchina and Tonquin (III).
It is illustrated with 2 maps and 4 fold-out tables.
The Marquis Renouard de Sainte-Croix made several trips to Asia. His memoir on Cochinchina is one of the first to mention the French presence in Indochina, the future Vietnam; it was written from notes supplied in Macao by Father René de la Bissachère, adviser to the future emperor of reunified Vietnam, Gia-Long.
Covers rubbed, spine splits. Some brown spots.
ATTACHED
TAVERNIER (Jean-Baptiste). Les Six voyages de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, écuyer d'Aubonne, en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes. Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1713. 5 (of 6) vol. in-12 (16 × 9 cm), green half-basin, smooth spine decorated (19th c. binding).New edition (the original appeared in 1676). Volume VI is missing. This copy contains 58 (of 59) plates.
Volume II, angular stain on the first 30 pages, volume III, angular stain on the last quires. Pale spotting.
Bibliography
1. Chadenat, 1710. Cordier, Sinica, no. 2106-2107. Numa Broc, 386.
2. Cordier, Japonica, no. 392 and Indosinica, no. 2419. Chadenat, no. 705 ("One of Tavernier's best editions in terms of text and illustrations").
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