DE MARSEILLE AUX FRONTIERES DE CHINE. por LAGRILLIERE-BEAUCLERC, Eug

Paris [1900], Librairie Chas. Tallandier. 3/4 Red over blue cloth, silver stamped, very clean, solid, 18 x 28 cm., 90 illustrations, French text, 367p. FIRST EDITION An excellent and early primary resource for travel and adventure in S.E. Asia, Hong Kong and Canton. * Covers the authors voyage from Marseille to Djibouti, Singapore, Saigon, opium smokers, Paulo-Condor, les Annamites, Cambodge, Phom-Penh ruins of Angkor, the Khmers, grand tour of Angkor, the pagodas of Kiem Si, return to Annam to Cantho, departure for China. Nha Trang, Tourane, Hue, Gia Long, Minh-Hang & Tu-Duc the old emperors of Vietnam. Visit to the collage at Hue, and officials. Travel in rickshaw [Pouisse-pousse], audience with Emperor Thanh Thay, and the funeral of a mandarin. * Visit to the Marble Mountains, mountain Buddhist monks, plantations, to Along Bay, Tonkin, Haiphong, Red River, the pirates of Song-Koi, Hanoi, the cult of Buddha, visit to the pagodas, and the Buddhist priest 100 years old, Chinese hotels, eggplants of Tonkin, trip to Yunnan and the stay at Chinese hotels. * Return to Hanoi, smoking of opium, fish-sauce of Tonkin, the plague of Don-son, on to Hong Kong, and Canton, the floating restaurants. * The work is lavishly illustrated with the author's photos. * .