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18871771492328DPBF. Rodda 1887. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1887. 2nd Edition. 110 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Heavy water marks to page edges and corners. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine. F. Rodda hardcover
1883180621Lyon.: Lyon-Républicain. circa1883. Engraved map 40.5 x 27.5; 48.9 x 31.8 cm sheet original folds some browning to the fold and margins two small holes at the central fold without significant loss in good condition. Map issued as a supplement to "Le Lyon-Republicain" one of the great radical daily newspapers in Lyon. The map is after documents by French explorer and trader Jean Dupuis 1829-1912 who had explored regions along the Red River in the hopes of establishing trade routes within Vietnam and China and variously published. This supplement was issued on the eve of the Tonkin War in 1883 so that readers could follow the military movements of the French Expeditionary Force. It shows northern Vietnam and into south-western China with provinces marked and river systems in detail. . Lyon-Républicain. unknown
1866HALL509648Hardback. 1866. viii 224pp Manchester 1866. 1st edition. Bound in gilt decorated and embossed blue cloth all edges gilt. Repair to last leaf otherwise a very good copy. . hardcover
1884173626Shanghai: Printed at the "Celestial Empire" office 1884. China is like a large pie. For many years covetous nations have been nibbling at the edge of the crust First edition of this eyewitness account of clashes between French and Chinese naval forces following the collapse of the Li-Fournier Agreement. Two tables show detail each side's ships and their specifications as well as the damage they sustained. The Tonkin War developed out of a tussle between France and China for influence in Vietnam. Following a number of engagements diplomatic exchanges between Li Hongzhang and Captain Ernest François Fournier produced a tentative agreement that China would withdraw from Tonkin and legally recognize a French protectorate. Negotiations however eventually broke down and the French launched an attack on Fuzhou on 23 August 1884. Foreign military observers including the two American authors of this report saw the engagement as a chance to evaluate the success of recent Chinese attempts to modernize the imperial navy. For the Qing empire the Battle of Fuzhou was a disaster the French fleet eight ships outgunning its eleven vessels all of which were eventually sunk. The defeat "paved the way for the dynasty's downfall" Po p. 206. The eight plates are after sketches made during the battle and show several Chinese ships before and after they were sunk. The final sketch is of a dog which drowned while trying to escape from the Yangwoo the Chinese flagship. Octavo. With 8 plates tables in text. Original light orange wrappers front cover lettered in black within ornamental black frame. Wrappers only lightly creased and marked contents sometime neatly consolidated into covers with adhesive text and plates clean: a near-fine copy. Cordier 2500. Ronald C. Po The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire 2018. unknown
