Paul Bonnetain - L'Extrême Orient - 1887

Magnificent illustrated edition with numerous drawings drawn from nature and accompanied by 3 maps compiled from the most recent documents. This travel and observation account devoted to the regions of East Asia blends geographic descriptions, personal impressions, and cultural analyses in a perspective that is both literary and documentary.

The author describes the landscapes, the cities, the ports and the trade routes, while taking an interest in the local populations, their customs, their religions and their ways of life, thus offering a vivid and detailed tableau of societies then perceived as distant and fascinating by the European public.

The work highlights the contrasts between ancestral traditions and modern influences, especially under the impact of commercial exchanges and Western presence, while reflecting the representations and imaginations specific to the nineteenth century.

Bonnetain adopts a descriptive and narrative style that combines ethnographic curiosity with a sense of picturesque, aiming to educate and captivate the reader through the richness of the observations and the variety of scenes evoked.

Paul Bonnetain - The Far East - 1887 - Maison Quantin -
521 Pages.

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its original red half-binding with corners, slight signs of wear, minor defects on the cover, headcaps pressed, gilt edges, smooth spine with a motif and gilt lines, title and author’s name in gilt -

Good interior condition, light browning, title page printed in red and black, richly illustrated with numerous drawings drawn from nature and accompanied by three maps compiled from the most recent documents, modern endpapers in good condition with a label on the first endpaper, a splendid copy -

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