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Auction archive: Lot number 4

China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages A Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 â 1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

Estimate
£750 - £1,000
ca. US$961 - US$1,282
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,282
Auction archive: Lot number 4

China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages A Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 â 1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

Estimate
£750 - £1,000
ca. US$961 - US$1,282
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$1,282
Beschreibung:

China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. ⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.

Auction archive: Lot number 4
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. ⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.

Auction archive: Lot number 4
Auction:
Datum:
16 May 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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