CALLERY (Joseph-Marie), YVAN (Melchior-Honoré). L'Insurrecti - Lot 27

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 green half-chagrin, spine ribbed (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". Autograph address signed by co-author "To M. le colonel Demarets M. Yvan". ( Cordier, Sinica, I, 268).