Claude Bourrin - Le Vieux Tonkin - 1941

1 volume in-8, 359 pp., richly illustrated with 74 engravings in text and out of text and with 2 plans of the Cities of Hanoi and Haiphong at the end.

Half-leather binding at the spine and corners: very good condition. Limited edition of 1,500 copies (this one is among the subscribers, unnumbered).

Chronicles of daily life, culture, and art in Hanoi, in the early years of pacification. Chapters devoted to means of transport, hotels, social life, balls, clubs, races, exhibitions, theater troupes, fires, and various performances. Daily life in an urban setting told by an aesthete passionate about Colonial Indochina.