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Asia - DEULEFILS (P.). L'Indo-Chine pittoresque et monumentale. Ruins of Angkor Cambodia. Preface by M. Étienne AYMONIER. Text by Louis FINOT. Hanoi, Pierre Dieulefils, sd (c.1909). Album, large, oblong in-4, ivory half-calf with corners, smooth spine, snake-style paper on covers, gilt title on front cover (publisher's binding). Leather worn and missing. Texts in French, English and German. [1] f. dedication, [1] f. title, [6] pp. preface, [2] pp. table, 1 chromolithographed frontispiece with captioned serpents, 68 plates num. 1-67 (including title and plate 29 bis), mounted on tabs, with captioned serpents. Very fine account of Indochina and in particular Angkor in the early 20th century by one of Indochina's most famous photographers, Pierre Dieulefils (who opened a photographic studio in Hanoi as early as 1889). He also produced over 5,000 postcards, much sought-after by collectors. He continued to work as a photographer well into the 1920s.

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Asia - DEULEFILS (P.). L'Indo-Chine pittoresque et monumentale. Ruins of Angkor Cambodia. Preface by M. Étienne AYMONIER. Text by Louis FINOT. Hanoi, Pierre Dieulefils, sd (c.1909). Album, large, oblong in-4, ivory half-calf with corners, smooth spine, snake-style paper on covers, gilt title on front cover (publisher's binding). Leather worn and missing. Texts in French, English and German. [1] f. dedication, [1] f. title, [6] pp. preface, [2] pp. table, 1 chromolithographed frontispiece with captioned serpents, 68 plates num. 1-67 (including title and plate 29 bis), mounted on tabs, with captioned serpents. Very fine account of Indochina and in particular Angkor in the early 20th century by one of Indochina's most famous photographers, Pierre Dieulefils (who opened a photographic studio in Hanoi as early as 1889). He also produced over 5,000 postcards, much sought-after by collectors. He continued to work as a photographer well into the 1920s.

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