Signé ; Théophile de Ferrière-Le-Vayer - Une ambassade française en Chine - 1854

Théophile de Ferrière-Le-Vayer. A French embassy in China. Paris, Amyot, 1854, 386 pp.

A volume in-8 (220x135 mm), half morocco, decorated spine (bindings of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine. Trace of dampness in the margin of the last hundred pages. Faint browning.

Original edition enriched with a dedication from the author on the half-title page.

In this travel narrative, Théophile de Ferrière Le Vayer recalls, as the first secretary of the legation sent to Macao at the end of 1843 to conclude a commercial agreement with China and obtain freedom of Christian worship. Led by Lagrené, the mission aimed to obtain the same advantages as the British after the Treaty of Nanking, and led to the Treaty of Whampoa, signed on October 24, 1844.