BOUINAIS (Albert), PAULUS (A.). La Cochinchine contemporaine - Lot 21

BOUINAIS (Albert), PAULUS (A.). La Cochinchine contemporaine. Paris, Challamel aîné, 1884. In-8, XI-490 p., 1 table and 1 large folded map hors-texte, contemporary midnight-blue half-basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page, cover preserved (spotting on spine). First edition illustrated with a general map of Cochinchina in color "reduction of the map in twenty sheets by M. Capitaine de frégate Bigrel, corrected according to the most recent documents". Histoire et géographies physique, politique, économique de la Cochinchine en 1884 by A. Paulus and Albert Bouinais (1851-1895) a military officer who took part in the Sino-Annamite delimitation commission (1885-1886). Collection "Bibliothèque algérienne et coloniale". Handwritten bookplate, red asiatic stamp repeated. (Cordier, Indosinica, 1540).