[Indochine]. Ethnic groups of French Indochina. Saigon, Soci - Lot 106

[Indochine]. Ethnic groups of French Indochina. Saigon, Société des Etudes Indochinoises, 1937. In-4, 64 p., 1 folding map, 100 plates, leaves in publisher's beige percaline slipcase with flaps, wooden clasps (leg. traces of wear and foxing on slipcase). First edition of this abum, comprising 100 plates printed in phototype on Arches paper with China background, with an introduction and note by Louis Malleret (1901-1970), curator of the Saîgon museum, and a fold-out color ethnographic map by Georges Taboulet (1888-1979), director of public education in Indochina. This album was produced using photographs that were not commercially available, taken in Saigon during the inauguration celebrations of the Transindochinois railway. The original photographs were taken by Lucien Lagneau of Kodak, and by Claeys, Cahen, Jampy, Lhuissier and Maria. Limited edition of 500 copies (n°270).