Live veiling - Lot 995
Live veiling - Lot 995
[India]
Journal d'un voyage dans l'Inde anglaise, à Java, dans l'archipel des Moluques, sur les côtes méridionales de la Chine, à Ceylan (1864).
Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et Cie, 1867
€ 300 / 400
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Beschrijving lot
2 vol., 8vo; 4 pl. (light spotting).
Contemp. half shagreen, marbled paper boards, spines with raised bands (boards sl. rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
Rare first edition of this uncommon travelogue by a "touriste âgé", ill. with 2 front., of which one colour lith. by Daumont, and 2 original photographs by L. Edmond (mounted on cardboard).
Ref. Cordier, Sinica, 2130. - BnF.
Prov. Prize book awarded to Hyacinthe Rolans in 1883 at the Athénée Royal de Bouillon (prize pasted on front endpaper).