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HOCQUARD (Docteur, Charles Édouard) - Une campagne au Tonkin…
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HOCQUARD (Docteur, Charles Édouard) - Une campagne au Tonkin…
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Lot no. 47
HOCQUARD (Docteur, Charles Édouard) - Une campagne au Tonkin - Paris ; Librairie Hachette, 1892 - 1 volume large In-8° - Some foxing at the beginning of the work - Portrait frontispiece, 247 photogravures in text, some full-page, 2 maps - Beautiful black morocco binding in bordered slipcase signed Canape et Corriez - Covers (foxed) preserved - 1st plate mosaicked with red morocco sinograms - Bordeaux morocco spine boards framed with 1 fillet, burgundy moire endpapers - spine ribbed, titled and dated in gold - gilt edges on witness - Copy enriched with 3 In-8° photographs of the author on albumen paper located on the spines - Autograph signed letter from the author to his wife on 1 of the white endpapers: "To my dear wife I offer these memories of a journey undertaken and told for the love of her, as a testimony of my unalterable tenderness and my deep gratitude for the happiness she has given me. January 92".
An army medical officer and amateur photographer, Hocquard was sent to Tonkin in 1884-85.
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