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FAVIER, Alphonse

Péking histoire et description

Péking
Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pé-Ang
1897

€600 - €900

Folio (353 x 270 mm.), XII, 563 pp, half-title, engravings, full-page photographic illustrations, 10 hand-coloured engravings of porcelain (including limitation page) FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 116 of 1000 COPIES. Bound in 3/4 leather, somewhat rubbed, original covers preserved, top edge gilt

First and limited edition of this important and luxurious work on the political and social history of the ancient capital of Peking. Alphonse Favier (1807-1905) was at the head of the French Mission in North China and the Vicar apostolic of Peking. Nicely printed on thick paper, this work contains a historical part and a descriptive part (Western Travellers in China)

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