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Lot n° 565
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[GROS (Jean Baptiste louis) baron] - Lot 565
[GROS (Jean Baptiste louis) baron]
Negotiations between France and China in 1860. Livre jaune du baron Gros, ambassadeur extraordinaire et haut commissaire de l'Empereur, en Chine, en 1858 et 1860. Paris, Dumaine, 1864.
In-4. Occasional foxing.
Contemporary red chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, 3 sets of triple intertwined fillets at the corners, gilt roulette on the edges, quadruple gilt fillet inside, green moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges. To be compared with the copy bearing the arms of the Tsar of Russia (Relation de l'expédition de Chine en 1860 by PALLU de LA BARRIÈRE), with a similar binding, presented in the same catalog.
First edition. First-hand account of the Franco-British expedition to China in 1860 (Sinica, 2497).
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