[INDOCHINA] - Lot 589

[INDOCHINA] Reunion of 7 volumes: - (MOUHOT (Henri): Voyage dans les royaumes de Siam, de Cambodge, de Laos... par Ferdinand de Lanoye. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1872. In-12. ½ red chagrin, spine ribbed. - MAYRÉNA (Marie-Charles David de): Souvenirs de Cochinchine. Toulon, Laurent, 1871. In-8. ½ brown chagrin with corners, ornate ribbed spine. Signed Maria de Mayréna." On title page. Auguste-Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Charles David, known as David de Mayrena1 was a French adventurer, who was a short-lived ruler of the kingdom of Sedangs under the name of Marie I. An ex-Spahi officer, a great seducer, a smooth talker, a megalomaniac and an indelicate businessman, he drew many people into his schemes, but ended up alone and half-mad on a small Malaysian island. - BROWN (Edward): Cochin-China and my experience of it. A Seaman's narrative of his adventure and sufferings during a captivity among Chinese pirates. - PALLU de LA BARRIERE (Léopold Augustin Charles): Histoire de l'expédition de Cochinchine en 1861. Paris, Hachette, 1864. In-8. ½ red chagrin, gilt title on spine. - CORTAMBERT (E.), ROSNY (Léon de): Tableau de la Cochinchine. Paris, Le Chevalier, 1862. Large in-8. ½ blue chagrin, gilt title on spine, gilt edges. - CORDIER (Henri): La Correspondance générale de la Cochinchine (1785-1791) published by Henri CORDIER. Leide, Brill, 1906-07. Large in-8. ½ percaline plum à la Bradel, fawn title page. - AUBARET (Louis Gabriel): Histoire et Description de la Basse Cochinchine, Translated for the first time, from the original Chinese text, by G. Aubaret, capitaine de frégate, published by order of S. Exc. le comte de Chasseloup-Laubat. Paris, Impr. Impériale, 1863. Large in-8. ½ blond calf, spine ribbed, red title page, top board detached.