Author: LOIR, Maurice.
Title: L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet.
Description: Paris, Nancy, Berger-Levrault et Cie., 1894. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. With 10 maps and many illustrations and plates by M. Brossard de Corbigny. VIII,324 pp. First published in Paris in 1886. - Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet (1827-1885) was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign (1883-1886) and the Sino-French War (1884-1885). From the contents: Après la sortie d'Hanoï; Bombardement de Thuan-an; Convention de Tien-Sin; Le combat naval de Fou-Chéou; Le descente de la Rivière Min; Occupation de Kelung; Le blocus de Formose; Affaire de Shei-poo; Pris des Iles Pescadores; Mort de l'amiral Courbet; Le traité de paix. - A fine copy with nice binding. Polak 6088.
Keywords: Asia China
Title: L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet.
Description: Paris, Nancy, Berger-Levrault et Cie., 1894. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. With 10 maps and many illustrations and plates by M. Brossard de Corbigny. VIII,324 pp. First published in Paris in 1886. - Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet (1827-1885) was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign (1883-1886) and the Sino-French War (1884-1885). From the contents: Après la sortie d'Hanoï; Bombardement de Thuan-an; Convention de Tien-Sin; Le combat naval de Fou-Chéou; Le descente de la Rivière Min; Occupation de Kelung; Le blocus de Formose; Affaire de Shei-poo; Pris des Iles Pescadores; Mort de l'amiral Courbet; Le traité de paix. - A fine copy with nice binding. Polak 6088.
Keywords: Asia China
Price: EUR 137.50 = appr. US$ 149.44 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 32915
- Book number: 32915