Souvenirs d'un voyage aux îles Philippines.

8vo : 268 pp. (endpaper renewed, a few inkstains, pp. 199-202 loosening, marg. traces of use throughout).

Publ. red cloth (covers pasted on, brown., gilt title on upper cover partly erased), renewed flat blind spine.

Very rare 1st edition of this relation of a travel from Marseille to Manila, 1870-1871, going through Aden, Ceylon, Singapore and Hong-Kong, apparently by a Antwerp botanist (cf. p. 217). Illustrated with 8 original albumen photographs incl. 3 reproductions of drawings, representing local population. Written by the author (1824-) for his friends and probably a limited edition, the book contains many picturesque anecdotes and ends with a presentation of the commercial and agricultural resources of the country, then ruled by Spain. Ref. Nardin Denis, Bibliographie des ouvrages en français sur les Philippines, n. 99. In: Archipel, volume 9, 1975, pp. 57-68. www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_1975_num_9_1_1216. - Joseph, Steven F., Belgian photographic literature of the 19th c., 2015, n. 142. Opac KBR. Bn-Opale plus. Not in COPAC. Joined: Sidney, Samuel - The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines, & gold fields. With numerous engravings. London, Ingram, Cooke & Co, 1852, 8vo, publ. pictorial red cloth. 1st ed., ill. with num. woodcuts in text or out of collation. (2 vol.)