Pavie, Auguste, [Pierre-Paul] Cupet, Joseph de Malglaive, Armand Joseph Rivière & Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis.
Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. Etudes diverses (Vol. I-III), Geographie et voyages (Vol I-VII) & Atlas. Notices et Cartes.
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1898-1919. 11 vols (incl. atlas). XLVI,367,[1], XLV,449, XXI,549, [1],332,[1], [1],402,[1], [3],428, XXVII,296,[1], XLVII,326,[1], [1],348,[2], 376,[1], 54 pp. Complete with all the illustrations: num. b./w. ills, col. & b./w. (lithographed) maps. col. plates and photographic ills. Cont. uniform h. mor. 4to. - Spines of 10 vols discol.& sl. spotted (library tickets removed from spines); bookplates & small stamps of the Ames Library of South Asia (St. Paul, Minnesota) on the endpapers; small piece of one first free endpaper missing. Extremely rare complete original set with the often lacking volume VII (published in 1919) of Geographie et voyages. Almost the entire edition of volume VII was destroyed soon after it was printed.. - - Presentation copy with author's autograph dedication to Narcisse Dubois on the half-title of vol. I of de section Géographie et Voyages. - - The Mission Pavie was an extensive operation, instigated by Auguste Pavie (1847-1925) in 1889 to explore and survey French Indochina (present day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos). The volumes describe the expeditions, the peoples, zoology, literature and history of the regions. - - The present set includes the atlas volume (with 10 maps: 5 col. single-page maps, 4 col. double-page maps & 1 small b./w. map), all three volumes of the Etudes Diverse section of the Mission Pavie reports and all seven volumes of the Geographie et Voyages section of the Mission Pavie reports. - - The Etudes diverses section is composed as follows: Vol. I. Recherches sur la littérature du Cambodge, du Laos et du Siam [...]; Vol. II: Recherches sur l'histoire du Cambodge, du Laos et du Siam [...]; Vol. III: Recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de lIndo-Chine orientale [...]. - - The Geographie et Voyages section is composed as follows: Vols I & II: Expose des Travaux de la Mission; Vol III: Voyages au Laos et chez les sauvages du sud-est de l'Indo-chine; Vol. IV: Voyages au centre de l'Annam et du Laos et dans les regions sauvages de l'Est de l'Indo-Chine; Vol. V: Voyages dans le haut Laos et sur les frontieres de Chine et de Birmanie; Vol. VI: Passage du Me-Khong au Tonkin (1887 et 1888); VlI: Journal de marche (1888-1889). E´ve´nements du Siam (1891-1893).
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€ 5500.00
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