Author: JURIEN DE LA GRAVIERE, Jean Pierre Edmond :
Title: Voyage en Chine et dans les Mers et Archipels de cet empire pendant les années 1847, 1848 , 1849, 1850 par Jurien de la Gravière, Capitaine, commandant la corvette La Bayonnaise expédiée par le Gouvernement français dans ces parages. (3 parts in one volume).
Description: 10. Ixelles Lez Bruxelles, Delevigne et Callewaert, s.d. (1852), in-8°, 284 pp + (2)nn pp ; 289 pp + (2)nn pp ; 290 pp + (2)nn pp, with 6 full page woodcut ills. (3 serving as frontispiece). bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Fine stainless copy. On the half title of the second part is a small circular stamp indicating that the copyright (newly established for French books published in Belgium) has been observed; ''Belgique -France. Convention du 22 Aout 1852''. The author Jurien de la Gravière (1812 - 1892) was a very successful French naval commander who ended his career as vice-admiral. He wrote many historical studies on French naval operations during the 19th century. Book in French. Livre en français. .

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