CALLERY (Joseph-Marie), YVAN (Melchior-Honoré). L'Insurrecti - Lot 26

CALLERY (Joseph-Marie), YVAN (Melchior-Honoré). L'Insurrection en Chine depuis son origine jusqu'à la prise de Nankin. Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1853. In-12, 274 p., frontispiece and folding map hors-texte, contemporary plum half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated (snag at head cover, rare brown spots). First edition. Account of the Taiping revolt, a major uprising that took place in southern and then central China between 1851 and 1864. Frontispiece portrait of the movement's founder, Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864); fold-out map of the "Provinces of China traversed by the Kouang-Si insurrection from its origin to the capture of Nanjing". Red Asiatic stamp on title repeated (Cordier, Sinica, I, 268).