1880. - Lot 1

1880. Louis Delaporte (1842-1925): Voyage au Cambodge, l'Architecture Khmer, by Louis Delaporte, lieutenant de vaisseau, head of the mission to explore Khmer monuments in 1873, organizer of the Khmer Museum in 1874-1878, member of the mission to explore the Mekong and Indo-China between 1866 and 1868. - Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1880, 462 pages. Illustrated with 175 engravings (14 on double page) and a map, including 125 original drawings by the author, and 50 reproductions of photographs or drawings by the author. Richly bound, gilt-edged, with special Cambodian gilt and designs on the first and fourth covers and on the spine. A handsome vol. in-8° jesus. Rare first edition. (Wear, tears to cover, stains).