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Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrème-Orient. A run from volume 1, 1901...

Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrème-Orient. A run from volume 1, 1901 to volume 63, 1976, lacking only volume 11.

by [Indochina]

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Hanoi: F.-H. Schneider, Imprimeur-Éditeur; Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1901-1976. Sixty-two volumes bound in sixty-four (Volume 11 lacking; volumes 44 & 52 each in two parts), in total 42,979 pages with 2,323 plates and 37 maps. Text largely in French. This set is handsomely bound in half calf, marbled boards, and is in very good condition. Volumes 32 and 46 have small tears to top of spine. A remarkable run of the foremost journal of studies on French Indochina and the surrounding regions. L'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient was founded by Paul Doumer, Governor-General of Indochina from 1897 to 1902, encouraged by the distinguished Indologist Sylvain Lévi. The foundation decree stated its objectives: to carry out research on the archaeological and philological exploration of the Indochinese peninsula, and to contribute, by every means possible, to the understanding of its history, its monuments and its languages; to contribute toward the study of neighbouring regions… Read More
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Maps of Iraq with Notes for Visitors.

Maps of Iraq with Notes for Visitors.

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Baghdad: The Government of Iraq, 1929. Revised and enlarged edition, folio, pp.(iv), 34, frontis, 8 folding maps. Together with 8 contemporary folding maps of the region loosely inserted. A good copy in rather worn original cloth. The maps are frayed at edges, several have tears to folds, one is annotated in pencil. Maps 1-4 are Roads of Northern Irag; Upper Central Iraq; Lower Central Iraq; [and] Southern Iraq. Map 5 is The Trans-Desert Routes and their connections. Map 6, The City of Baghdad and environs. 7, The environs of Basrah. 8, Ancient Sites. Additional maps: 1: Carte de la Syrie et d'Irak. Echelle 1: 1.150.000. Alexandrie. Egypte. Alexandre Nicohosoff. 40 x 70 cm. Folding to card cover. 2: Iraq, Syria, Turkey. Mosul Division. No J.38 M. Jazarat Ibn Omar. For Official Use only. 68 x 50 cm. Folded. May 1941. 1 inch to 4 miles. Surveyor General of India. 3: Iraq. Baghdad, Diyala, Dulaim. No.2.C. Baghdad. For Official Use only. 64 x 49 cm. Folded. 1931. Reprint of 1922… Read More
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[London]: Awnsham and John Churchill, [1704]. First edition in English, and first edition of second English translation, extracted from Churchill's Voyages, folio, 31 x 20 cm., pp. [545]-556; (787)-838. A very good copy in modern half calf, marbled boards. A few wormholes to first third of text, affecting some letters but not legibility. The first English translation of Backhoff's Anhang zwoer Reisen (1674) and Wagener's A Short Account of the Voyages including his time in China in 1653, with the second English translation of Borri's Relatione. Feodor Iskowitz Backhoff was the Russian Ambassador who journeyed into Kattay (i.e. China) in 1654, and Zacharias Wagener spent 35 years journeying across the world and unsuccessfully attempted to open trade out of China, during which he gained considerable fame in Holland. Christopher, or Christoforo, Borri (1583-1632), joined the Society of Jesus in 1601, and was sent with his fellow Jesuit Marquez to Vietnam in 1616. He spent five years in… Read More
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