GUIGNES (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de).
Voyages à Peking, Manille et l'Île de France, faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 à 1801. Paris, from the Imperial Printing Office, 1808. Atlas small in-folio, porphyry basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page (Binding of the period).
Atlas presented alone, complete with 98 beautiful engravings and maps of China engraved on copper under the direction of Jacques-Eustache de Sève, including one numbered 93 bis.
Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759-1845), famous sinologist, lived seventeen years in China and was notably consul in Canton and Peking.
Without the 3 in-8 volumes of text. Worn binding with spotting, the defaults used in lining are detached.
