1880 - Lot 5

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. Green paper boards, gilded irons and special Cambodian motifs on the first and fourth covers and on the spine. Gilt edges. Dimensions: 27x18.5 cm. (Wear, rubbing, stains).