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Aventures d’un Gentilhomme Breton aux Iles Philippines

Name: Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton aux Iles Philippines
SKU: 12443
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Author: Paul Proust de la Gironiere / Henri Valentin (des Vosges) [artist]

Publisher: Au Comptoir des Imprimeurs - Unis, Lacroix - Comon, et Chez L'Auteur, Paris; First edition

Year: 1855

Size: 28 x 18 cm; 8vo

Reference: P. de Tavera: Biblioteca Filipina #1181 see also # 1182, 1183; Palau 102 763

SKU: 12443 Category: Antique Books Tag: Philippines 41

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old but later cloth, 458 pp, 1 full-page map, many illustrations, 7 plates, gilted spine, frontispiece: ‘Pont de Manille’.

Book illustated by Valentin after Lafond and others with a map of Laguna de Bay including Jala-Jala – the ultimative narrative of this French settler’s adventures when creating a large hazienda and his travails and personal fortunes and misfortunes.

Condition

strong binding, some foxed/stained pages, with minor stains & foxing affecting some pages; map in good, overall very good.

Aventures d’un Gentilhomme Breton aux Iles Philippines

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