1909 Pierre Dieulefils. INDOCHINA PICTURESQUE & MONUMENTAL. CAMBODIA AND THE RUINS OF ANGKOR. By P. Dieulefils, photo-editor in Hanoi and Paul Vivien, Hanoi, artistic ed. of P. Dieulefils. About 1908 or 1909. Italian format, dimensions : 29x39 cm, half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, gilt title on the first plate, gilt head, false title, table, illustrated title. (Portrait of His Majesty Sisowath) 50 plates (100 subjects) under captioned serpente, all on tab. Superb geographical, ethnographic, picturesque and artistic collection for Phnom-Penh (houses, pagodas, Cambodian types, Cambodian women, etc.) and Angkor-Vat. One of the 500 copies printed. Very good condition, copy with very rare freckles.

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