LAUNAY (Adrien). Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missio - Lot 124

LAUNAY (Adrien). Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Etrangères. Lille, Desclée, De Brouwer, 1890. In-folio, [2] f., 26 colored maps with accompanying explanations, blue half-percaline, title in black on upper cover (corners worn, stains on upper cover, general map lacking). € First edition. Atlas of 26 colored maps accompanied by 26 geographical and historical notes, drawn up in 1889 by Adrien Launay (1853-1927) priest of the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris and missionary in Cochinchina showing the location of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Etrangères en Asie: Pondicherry; Coïmbour; Maïssour; Southern Burma; Northern Burma; Siam; Malacca Peninsula; Cambodia; Western Cochinchine; Eastern Cochinchine; Northern Cochinchine; Southern Tong-King; Western Tong-King; Kouang-Tong; Kouang-Si; Kouy-Tcheou; Yun-Nan; Western Su-Tchuen; Southern Su-Tchuen; Thibet; Manchuria; Korea; Southern Japan; Central Japan; Northern Japan. (Cordier, Indosinica, III, 1935).