GARNIER, Francis, DOUDART de LAGREE, Ernest Atlas du voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission française (...) publié par les ordres du ministre de la Marine sous la direction de (...)...
Estimation :
3000 / 4000
Adjudication :
4500 €
Description
Francis Garnier. Deuxième partie. Atlas pittoresque exécuté d'après les dessins de (...) L. Delaporte. 1873Paris,Hachette,large folio, mod. dark brown half morocco, gilt titled flat spine, upper orig. cover pres. (locally dampstained, expertly remargined), slipcase, xii pp., 40 pl. (a few pale marg. dampstains). Very good well preserved copy, entirely mounted on stubs.
"Atlas pittoresque" only (without 2 text vol. and 1 vol. of maps and plans) of this rare official account of the exploration of the Mekong and the Yangtze rivers. 1st ed. and 1st printing of the pl., limited to 800 copies. Complete with 40 lithogr., chromolith. or engr. plates of which 6 on double-page presenting 48 views (numb. I-XLII, 3/4/5, 11/12, 13/14, 36/37, 40/41, 44/44bis and 45/46 on 1 pl.), including 11 chromolith. and some col. lithogr. Beautiful plates by different artists after Louis Delaporte (1842-1925), a marine officer, archaeologist and geographer, pionneer of Cambodian studies in France : ethnic types, large landscapes, temples (i.a. 4 of Angkor Vat in Cambodia), sanctuaries ("Intérieur de la grotte du Nam Hou"), costumes, buildings, plants (orchids), popular scenes ("Course de pirogues à Bassac", "Fête dans une pagode de Nong Kay", "Marché de Luang Prabang"). Particularly spectacular is the double pl. IX "Ruines du Baion (monument aux 42 tours)". Francis Garnier (1839-1873) was a French officer and explorer. "It was at his suggestion that the marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat determined to send a mission to explore the valley of the Mekong River, but as Garnier was not considered old enough to be put in command, the chief authority was entrusted to Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée (1823-1868)" (Wikipedia). In the course of the expedition from Cambodia to Shanghai, 5392 miles were traversed, and of these, 3625 miles, chiefly of country unknown to European geography, were surveyed with care, and the positions fixed by astronomical observations, nearly the whole of the observations being taken by Garnier himself. When shortly afterwards Lagrée died, Garnier naturally assumed the command of the expedition. *** Atlas pittoresque seul du voyage effectué en Indo-Chine, au Cambodge, au Laos et en Chine par une expédition de découverte emmenée par Doudart de Lagrée et menée à bien par Fr. Garnier après sa mort. Edit. originale tirée à 800 ex. Complet des 40 belles planches dont 6 sur double page et 11 chromolith., figurant 48 sujets.
"Atlas pittoresque" only (without 2 text vol. and 1 vol. of maps and plans) of this rare official account of the exploration of the Mekong and the Yangtze rivers. 1st ed. and 1st printing of the pl., limited to 800 copies. Complete with 40 lithogr., chromolith. or engr. plates of which 6 on double-page presenting 48 views (numb. I-XLII, 3/4/5, 11/12, 13/14, 36/37, 40/41, 44/44bis and 45/46 on 1 pl.), including 11 chromolith. and some col. lithogr. Beautiful plates by different artists after Louis Delaporte (1842-1925), a marine officer, archaeologist and geographer, pionneer of Cambodian studies in France : ethnic types, large landscapes, temples (i.a. 4 of Angkor Vat in Cambodia), sanctuaries ("Intérieur de la grotte du Nam Hou"), costumes, buildings, plants (orchids), popular scenes ("Course de pirogues à Bassac", "Fête dans une pagode de Nong Kay", "Marché de Luang Prabang"). Particularly spectacular is the double pl. IX "Ruines du Baion (monument aux 42 tours)". Francis Garnier (1839-1873) was a French officer and explorer. "It was at his suggestion that the marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat determined to send a mission to explore the valley of the Mekong River, but as Garnier was not considered old enough to be put in command, the chief authority was entrusted to Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée (1823-1868)" (Wikipedia). In the course of the expedition from Cambodia to Shanghai, 5392 miles were traversed, and of these, 3625 miles, chiefly of country unknown to European geography, were surveyed with care, and the positions fixed by astronomical observations, nearly the whole of the observations being taken by Garnier himself. When shortly afterwards Lagrée died, Garnier naturally assumed the command of the expedition. *** Atlas pittoresque seul du voyage effectué en Indo-Chine, au Cambodge, au Laos et en Chine par une expédition de découverte emmenée par Doudart de Lagrée et menée à bien par Fr. Garnier après sa mort. Edit. originale tirée à 800 ex. Complet des 40 belles planches dont 6 sur double page et 11 chromolith., figurant 48 sujets.
