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[CHINA EXPEDITION] - Lot 534
[CHINA EXPEDITION] Relation de l'expédition de Chine en 1860. Rédigée au dépôt de la Guerre d'après les documents officiels, sous le ministère de S. E. le maréchal comte Randon, étant directeur le général Blondel. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1862. In-4. Handwritten flyle: request for dedication to Monsieur le général, to ask for his autograph. Signed Anselme Petetin (director of the Imprimerie Impériale) - Paris, July 14, 1862. A second sheet appended to the suite (the paper is different): note and autograph of the general in return - Under the reign of Napoleon III: general. Charles Cousin-Montauban, Cte de Palikao - Senator. Red chagrin, gilt title on spine, suite of 3 double gilt fillets interlaced at corners, gilt roulette on edges, quadruple fillet inside, green moiré silk endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. Detailed and official account of the Franco-British expedition to China in 1860, whose origins go back to the second Opium War in 1856.
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