La Chine à terre et en ballon; reproduction de 272 photographies, exécutées par des Officiers du Génie du corps expéditionnaire et groupées sur 42 [vraiment 41] planches et phototypie avec légendes explicatives
5 preliminary leaves, 41 plates : photographs, illustrations 35 cm
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Place:
China
Beijing (China)
Tianjin (China)
Date:
1902
Notes:
Limited edition of 25 copies.
Some of the illustrations and the cover design are signed: E. Rocher.
Loose plates in portfolio.
Photographs, mainly of Peking and Tientsin, taken by Capts. Calmel, Plaisant and Tissier during 1900-1901 (see note to Légendes des planches, page [7]).
Plates signed: Héliotypie E. Le Deley, Paris.
NASMRB copy 39088018106336 is number 18 of the limited edition.
NASMRB copy is wanting the plate numbered 11, possibly omitted by the publisher?
NASMRB copy has bookplate:The aeronautical library of William A.M. Burden. With bookseller's printed label mounted on the front paste-down endpaper: French Bookstore Peiping (China).
NASMRB copy has the original color-printed and illustrated beige cloth portfolio with decorated endpapers; a color-printed paper wrapper for protection of the loose plates is included.
NASMRB copy 39088018106336 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries Adopt-a-Book program. Adopted by David and Marilyn Pickett in memory of Bonnie Rountree on March 6, 2018.
