[ASIA. INDOCHINA]. - Lot 153

[ASIA. INDOCHINA]. -CHEVEY, Pierre. Publications of the Indochinese Oceanographic Institute. Fishes of the Lanessan Region (1925–1929). Part One. Saigon, General Government of Indochina, 1932. Folio, publisher’s paperback. Contains color-printed plates. -CAUCHETIER. “Saigon” (sponsored by the Union of Reserve Officers). Albin Michel, Paris. Beautiful book with photogravure illustrations, including a panorama. Large quarto, Bradel binding in mustard-colored cloth, published by the author. - [Book with author’s dedication in French] DAC-LAC Printing House in Hué. (ca. 1930). Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.