DEVERIA (Gabriel). Histoire des relations de la Chine avec l - Lot 56

DEVERIA (Gabriel). Histoire des relations de la Chine avec l'Annam-Viê?tnam du XVIe au XIXe siècle. D'après des documents chinois traduits pour la première fois.... Paris, Leroux (Publ. de l'Ec. des Langues Orientales vivantes, 1e série, vol. 13), 1880. In-8, X-102 p., folding map, marbled half-basin circa 1910, spine ribbed, red title-pieces (rubs to nerves and headpieces, 2 f. of table reassembled with snag in margin). First edition illustrated with a large fold-out map. An interesting, extensively annotated copy, possibly by the author Gabriel Devéria (1844-1899), diplomat and sinologist, professor at the Ecole des Langues Orientales, Chinese language interpreter, specialist in epigraphy and the history of China and Central Asia, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Provenance: Jules Patenôtre, diplomat, chargé d'affaires de France en Chine (autograph letter signed by the author). Handwritten bookplate "Vignault"; red stamp (sinogram) repeated, signed and dated 1952. (Cordier, Indosinica, 2481).