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LA BISSACHÈRE (Pierre-Jacques Lemonnier de)... - Lot 35 - Ader
LA BISSACHÈRE (Pierre-Jacques Lemonnier de) - [MONTYON (Antoine-Jean-Baptiste-Robert Auget, baron de)]. Current state of Tunkin, Cochinchina, and the kingdoms of Cambodia, Laos and Lac-Tho. Paris: Galignani's French and Foreign Library, 1812. - 2 volumes in-8, 215 x 132 : (2 ff.), ij, 325 pp. ; (2 ff.), 342 pp., (1 f.). Unbound and neatly placed in a modern hardback cover, smooth spine with printed label, untrimmed. First Parisian edition of this relation which, although presented under the name of the Catholic missionary Pierre-Jacques Lemonnier de La Bissachère (1764-1830), was written by the economist and philanthropist Baron de Montyon (1733-1820). La Bissachère wrote a first report at the request of the cavalry officer Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix. The work was published in his name in 1810. A year later Baron de Montyon wrote his own account which he published under the name of La Bissachère first in London under the title Exposé statistique du Tunkin, de la Cochinchine, du Cambodge, du Tsiampa, du Laos, du Lac-tho and then in Paris in 1812 under another title indicated above. Montyon borrowed only a few things from La Bissachère's notes; he was inspired in particular by Barrow's account of his trip to Cochinchina and by several letters from missionaries published in the Nouvelles des Missions Orientales. The work was a great success at the time and was even translated into German in 1813. a good copy with full margins, whose original bindings, very damaged, have been carefully replaced by modern hardcovers . Illegible red stamps on the titles as well as on page 99 and the last leaf of each volume.
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