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DUPUIS, JEAN: - [TRADE - TONKIN AND SOUTHERN CHINA]. L'ouverture du fleuve rouge au commerce et les événements du Tong-kin 1872-1873. Journal de voyage et d'Expédition. Prèface par le Mis de Croisier. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1879.

Title: [TRADE - TONKIN AND SOUTHERN CHINA]. L'ouverture du fleuve rouge au commerce et les événements du Tong-kin 1872-1873. Journal de voyage et d'Expédition. Prèface par le Mis de Croisier. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1879.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (iv), xiii, 324, (2). With one portrait and one large folding map ("routes commerciale du sud-quest de la Chine"). Marbled paper covered boards, calf spine lettered in gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Occasionally some staining. First edition. Jean Dupuis (1828-1912) was a French merchant who was very active seeking a trading route between Yunnan and the delta of Tonkin via the Red River. His account explains the difficulties with customs and the controversies and fights with the Black Flag Army who helped the Vietnamese government to defeat the French. In 1881 Dupuis was awarded the Delalande Guérineau prize by the Academy of Sciences in Paris. ("Mémoires de la Société Académique Indo-Chinoise de Paris. Tome deuxième"). Cordier BI 2518-9.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, tonkin, vietnam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, commerce, trade, china, chine, chinese, kina,

Price: EUR 500.00 = appr. US$ 543.42 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100255

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