Aventures d’un Gentilhomme Breton aux Iles Philippines

₱55,900.00

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

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Description

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.