Live auction - Lot 617
[Laos]
Sur les sentiers laotiens.
Hanoï-Hải Phòng, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1921
Hammer price: €
200
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
8vo; 30 pl. (2 tiny tears in map, few sm. spots).
Contemp. quarter black sheep, marbled paper boards, titled spine with raised bands, orig. wr. pres. (spine sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
First edition of this rare ethnographic account of Upper Laos by E. Guillemet, doctor in the "Troupes coloniales". Ill. with 29 phototype pl., mostly of indigenous people, a folding map and in-text sheet music.