Ludovic de Beauvoir - Voyage autour du Monde - 1875

Journey around the World
Ludovic de Beauvoir
Paris, Plon, 1875
in-8 27.5 x 18 cm
661 pp.

Journey around the World: Australia, Java, Siam, Canton, Beijing, Edo, San Francisco
Second illustrated edition in-8 of this fabulous travel account by the Comte de Beauvoir.
Illustrated with 116 illustrations, including a black frontispiece and 9 cards.

A fine copy with great freshness, signed binding by Mouveau and Levesque.
Interior in excellent condition.

Frontispiece in black and red, 7 colored cards and 2 black and white cards.
Page 5, Travel overview map (colorful fold-out map)
p. 86, map of the Australian continent (folding color map)
p. 195, Map of the Torres Strait (full-page, black and white)
p. 203, Map of Malaysia and Indochina (folding color map)
p. 464 (erroneously given on p. 478 in the Index)
Map of the surroundings of Beijing (in color on a page with a serpentine border).
p. 471 (given by mistake in p. 484 in the index)
Map of Beijing (in color on a page under a serpent).
p. 516 (erroneously given as p. 537 in the Index)
Bay of Yeddo (in colors on a page under a winding layout)
Page 542, Map of the Korean expedition's west coast near Seoul (full-page, black and white).
p. 602 (erroneously given as p. 622 in the Index), map of the California itinerary (in color on a page beneath a serpent).

Engravings (urban and rural landscapes, popular or powerful figures, scenes of life).
Daily or rare events are of great documentary interest.

An important work for understanding the Asian world (notably China, Japan, Korea) at a time when, willingly or by force, the populations of these countries, until then inviolable, began to open up to the West.