1887 · Paris
by Dutreuil de Rhins, Jules-Leon
Paris: Societie de Geographie, 1887. 2 volumes, 8vo, original printed wrappers; generally fine and unopened. Five folding maps accompany Dutreuil de Rhins' "Memoir" which runs to approximately 125 pages of text. Also in these issues are J. Renaud's article "Les ports du Tonkin: Hai-phong, Quang-yen, Hone-gac" which runs 20 pages and is accompanied by a nice folding color map of the ports of Tonkin. Also included is Le comte Maurice de Chavagnac's "De Fez a Oudjda," also with a folding map. Jules Léon Dutreuil de Rhins (1846-1894) was a French geographer and explorer. "From 1891 to 1894 he explored Chinese Turkestan (East Turkestan) and the most inaccessible and least-known regions of northern and western Tibet. He was murdered by locals at a small town in eastern Tibet" (Wikipedia).
(Inventory #: 68340)