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SONNERAT, PIERRE. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine . . . Nouvelle Édition. 5 vols., including atlas. 1806
SONNERAT, PIERRE. Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine . . . Nouvelle Édition. Half-titles, the first with publisher''s facsimile signature on verso. 4 volumes. With atlas containing 4 leaves of letterpress preliminaries and 140 engraved plates. Together, 5 volumes. Text volumes 8vo, contemporary 1/2 red straight-grain morocco gilt, outer column in tables on pages 401-12 in Volume 3 cropped with slight text loss; atlas volume 4to, modern 1/2 cloth. Paris, 1806
- Notes: Revised edition of Sonnerat''s 1782 account of the 1774-81 French expedition to the Far East undertaken by order of Louis XVI, treating customs, religion, natural history, sciences, and arts. Cordier, Sinica 2102; Garrison-Morton 5104.1 (for discussion of the prevalence of cholera); Hill 1608; Lust 353 (all citing original edition).
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