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GUIGNES, CHRETIEN LOUIS JOSEPH. 1759–1845. Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. image 1
GUIGNES, CHRETIEN LOUIS JOSEPH. 1759–1845. Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. image 2
GUIGNES, CHRETIEN LOUIS JOSEPH. 1759–1845. Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. image 3
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GUIGNES, CHRETIEN LOUIS JOSEPH. 1759–1845.
Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

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GUIGNES, CHRETIEN LOUIS JOSEPH. 1759–1845.

Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.
4 volumes. Folio album (410 x 263 mm), 8vo text volumes (198 x 120 mm). Atlas volume with 97 engraved plates and maps on 66 leaves, including a large folding map on 2 conjoined sheets. Folio in modern quarter calf and cloth with contemporary spine laid down; text volumes in modern calf gilt, marbled paper slipcases.

FIRST EDITION, a handsome set. A comprehensive account of a series of voyages made between 1784 and 1801, illustrated with detailed maps of parts of China, including the region between Peking and Qingdao (Canton), and also Macao and the Philippines, as well as landscape views, street scenes, palaces, pagodas, gardens, costumes, canals, ships, roads, festival scenes, sculpture, porcelain, etc. Guignes was a French orientalist scholar and diplomat who served as Consul in Canton in 1784, and then as interpreter with the Dutch embassy in Peking (now Beijing), serving a total of seventeen years in China. Cordier 2351-2352; Hill 2004.

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