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MALPIERE, D. Bazin de.

La Chine et les Chinois.

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Stock Code
102265
Paris, J. Caboch, Demerville et Cie, 1848
£9,500

Collection of attractive lithographs of scenes from Chinese life of the mid-Ch'ing period including a plan of Peking.

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Description

Second edition, 'mise en un meilleur ordre', 4 parts in 2 vols; folio (35 x 27.5 cm); introduction by Bazin, 179 of 181 hand-coloured lithographs (on 177 leaves), with four leaves of music and a hand-coloured vignette, engraved by Aubry-le-Comte, Deveria, Grévédon after drawings by père Castiglione, Pu-Qua and William Alexander (from Pittoresque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese), Chambers, Dadley etc.,; quarter green morocco with blue marbled boards, spines in compartments with gilt and black morocco design, gilt title to second, some plates with minor stains, edges bumped, a fine copy.

Bibliography

Colas 1958.

Stock ID:102265

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