an old book opened to show an image of a city
Gros & Delettrez

153 - [ASIA. INDOCHINA].
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Estimate €100 - €150
Description
[ASIA. INDOCHINA]. -CHEVEY, Pierre. Proceedings of the Indochinese Oceanographic Institute. Fishes of the Lanessan region (1925–1929). Part One. Saigon, General Government of Indochina, 1932. Folio, publisher’s paperback. Contains colour-printed plates. -CAUCHETIER. ‘Saigon’ (sponsored by the Union des Officiers de Réserve). Albin Michel, Paris. A beautiful book of photogravure prints, including a panorama. Large quarto, Bradel binding in mustard-coloured cloth, published by the publisher. - [Book with author’s dedication in French] DAC-LAC Printing Works, Hué. (c. 1930). Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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