A large collection of documents including: - Lot 42

A large collection of documents including: * 1907 [LITERATURE] - REY (Pierre), *Les Broussards dans le golfe de Siam*. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1907. Book in half-leather binding. 253 pages. Dimensions: 18x12 cm. (Binding partially detached; some pages loose). - AJALBERT (Jean), of the Académie Goncourt, *Sao Van Di*. Paris, Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie, Bibliothèque de l'Académie Goncourt, 1922. Title page featuring a portrait of the author by Eugène CARRIÈRE, woodcut by Paul BORNET. Hardcover volume. Dimensions: 23.5x15 cm. - CHACK (Paul), Hoang-Tham the Pirate. Paris, Les Éditions de France, 1933. Half-leather binding with corner pieces, four maps drawn by the author. 266 pages. Dimensions: 18.5 x 12 cm. (Some pages have come loose from the binding). - NGUYEN VAN VINH, *Kieu* by Nguyen Du (Great Vietnamese Folk Poem), Saigon and Hanoi, Vinhbao & Hoanhson Publishers, 1951. Hardcover. 471 pages. Dimensions: 20x14 cm. - D'ESME (Jean), Thi-Ba, Daughter of Annam. Paris, Haussmann, 1956. Volume numbered 1542. Partially untrimmed paperback, featuring six color lithographic plates by Jacques BOULLAIRE. Illustrated dust jacket. 284 pages. Dimensions: 25.5x16.5 cm. - VU HOANG CHUONG, Selected Poems - Thi Tyen. Saigon, Nguyen Khang Publishing, 1963. Folio-sized paperback featuring one color offset illustration and other printed drawings monogrammed “SP.” Book in Vietnamese and French. French translation by Simone KUHNEN DE LA COEUILLERIE, with a preface by André GUIMBRETIERE. Ex-libris on the title page. Dimensions: 21x15.5 cm. 165 pages. (A few annotations). - DUONG DINH KHUE, Masterpieces of Vietnamese Literature. Kim Lai An Quan, 1966. Half-bound. 414 pages. Dimensions: 25x17 cm. (A few annotations). * 1927 [ANNAM] - TAVERNIER (Émile), The Annamite Family. Saigon, Nguyen-van-Gua Publishing, 1927. Paperback, partially untrimmed. Émile Tavernier was a graduate of the School of Oriental Languages, held a doctorate in law, and served as a magistrate. 107 pages. Dimensions: 28.5x19 cm. (Booklet detached). - MILLET (Fernand), The Large Wild Animals of Annam: Their Habits, Hunting, and Shooting. Paris, Plon Publishing, 1930. Hardcover volume with an ex-libris. 18 sketches in the text, 53 photographs in the appendix, and one map. Ferdinand Millet was a Forest Inspector and former Technical Advisor on Hunting in Indochina. 369 pages. Dimensions: 23x15 cm. (Foxing spots, wear). - Commander Baudesson, former member of the Transindochinois study missions. In the Land of Superstitions and Rites Among the Moïs and the Chams. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1932. Paperback volume, with 4 drawings by Paule and Mona Baudesson, 36 photographs inserted in the text, and an ethnographic sketch. Ex-libris, ideogram stamp, dated June 1933 on the flyleaf. 276 pages. Dimensions: 20x12.5 cm. (Binding partially detached, cover annotated). - Bishop Armand OLICHON, Father Six, Parish Priest of Phat-Diem, Viceroy of Annam. Bloud & Gay Bookstore, 1941. Paperback volume, offset portrait of Father Six on the title page. 146 pages. Dimensions: 19x12 cm. (Stains, foxing, wear). - NGUYEN VAN HUYEN, Member of the French School of the Far East, The Cult of the Immortals in Annam. Hanoi, Imprimerie d’Extrême-Orient, 1944. Preface by M. G. Coedès, Correspondent of the Institute, Director of the French School of the Far East. Woodcuts from the *Hoi Chan Bien*, comprising 7 plates, including 2 plates on a fold-out sheet showing plans of the Bich Cau Temple. 192 pages. Dimensions: 20x15.5 cm. - TRAN VAN TUNG, Annam: Land of Dreams and Poetry. Paris, Les Éditions J. Susse, 1945. Foreword by Paul Claudel. Paperback volume, illustrated with full-page black-and-white photographs. Dedication by the author to Governor de Peyrera (?) on the title page. 95 pages. Dimensions: 24.5 x 16 cm.