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[AUBRY- LECOMTE, DEVÉRIA, GREVEDON, VIDAL...
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
[AUBRY- LECOMTE, DEVÉRIA, GREVEDON, VIDAL...
Paris, Victor Lecou, s. d..
Chinese album.
In-folio (32 × 23 cm), half blue morocco, gilt fillet and gilt title on first cover, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding).
Beautiful album of 20 watercolour lithographs.
Some light foxing.
Provenance
Gaston Héliot (ex-libris, antique dealer in the Far East between the wars).
ATTACHMENTS
- PHOTOGRAPH]. China on land and in a balloon. Reproduction of 272 photographs, executed by officers of the expeditionary corps. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1902. In-4 (approx. 33 × 25 cm), in sheets, printed flap cover, publisher's percaline folder with polychrome decoration.
42 phototypeset plates.
One of 25 deluxe copies, this one on Whatmann, marked "exemplaire d'hommage". Spotted dust jacket.
- ESTAYRAC DE LAUTURE (Comte d'). Mémoires sur le Chine. Paris, Librairie du magasin pittoresque, 1865. 5 parts in a large vol. in-4, (30,5 × 23 cm) red publisher's percaline.
The most complete edition of these memoirs, illustrated with numerous wood-engraved figures in the text and 2 fold-out maps. Religious and administrative vocabulary.
- ALLOM (Thomas) and PELLÉ (Clément). The Chinese Empire Illustrated. London, Fisher, (1843-1845). 4 parts in 2 vol. in-4 (27,5 × 20,5 cm), red half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding).
First French edition. Clément Pellé wrote the descriptions of the manners and customs of the Chinese people and Thomas Allom drew the illustrations: 4 English titles and 120 steel-engraved plates (views, scenes of life, costumes, crafts, etc.).
The first English title placed in the middle of the first part. Some foxing. Stamped "Ls Bretonville".
Bibliography
Lipperheide, no. 1533.
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