GARCIN (Frédéric). In Tonkin during the Conquest. Letters fr - Lot 81

GARCIN (Frédéric). In Tonkin during the Conquest. Letters from a sergeant (1884-1885). Paris, Chapelot, [c..1891]. In-8, 256 p., 11 plates, contemporary black half-chagrin, spine ribbed, cover preserved (upper cover detached, spine rubbed, margins yellowed). First edition. Account of military operations in 1884 and 1885, "precisely the most serious of all those necessitated by this long campaign, operations in which we had to assemble the largest forces and the only ones in which the clash between our troops and the regular Chinese army occurred" (preface). By Frédéric Garcin, former lieutenant in the Infanterie de Marine, author of Au Tonkin un an chez les Muongs souvenirs d'un officier Paris, Plon, 189 (Cordier, Indosinica, 1021).