HAUSSMANN (Auguste). Voyage en Chine, Cochinchine, Inde et M - Lot 94

HAUSSMANN (Auguste). Voyage en Chine, Cochinchine, Inde et Malaisie. Paris, G. Olivier, 1847-1848. 3 vol. in-8, [vol. I] (8)-482 p., contemporary brown half-percaline, smooth spine, stamp on title [vols. II and III] (4)-418 p. + (4)-489 p., contemporary blue chagrined half cloth, smooth spine (sustained russeting to fx-title and title of t.1 and sporadic moderate russeting). First edition. Auguste Haussmann (Wintzenheim, 1815 - Algiers, 1874) businessman and diplomat, cousin of Baron Haussmann, was sent to China in 1844 by the Mulhouse Chamber of Commerce, to accompany the Théodore de Lagrené mission as representative of the interests of the Alsatian textile industry. Volume I: Relation du voyage, esquisse géographique et coup d'oeil sur l'histoire de la Chine; volume II: Population, gouvernement, agriculture, sciences, littérature, beaux-arts, Manille, Java, Cochinchine; volume III: Commerce de la Chine, articles d'importation et d'exportation. Provenance: Albert de Pouvourville dit Matgioi (bookplate on Volume 2) military officer, orientalist, occultist and poet, Taoist initiate under the name Matgioï, translated from Chinese into French (Nancy 1861-1839). (Cordier, Sinica, 1007).