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La Ville au Bois Dormant: De Saïgon à Angkor en Automobile

La Ville au Bois Dormant: De Saïgon à Angkor en Automobile

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An account by Ferdinand-François d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier, of the first motor journey from Saigon to the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, undertaken in 1908 aboard a Lorraine Diétrich automobile. Published by Plon-Nourrit in 1910, the volume is illustrated with 89 photographs, three colour chromolithographs by the artist Sahib, and two folding maps. This copy is bound in a handsome half red-leather binding with marbled boards consistent with a period binder's binding; the chromolithograph title page is notably well-preserved.

  • Author: Montpensier, Duc de [Ferdinand-François d'Orléans]
  • Publisher: Librairie Plon (Plon-Nourrit et Cie)
  • Place: Paris
  • Year: 1910
  • Edition: [edition not stated on title page; first and only edition per research]
  • Physical: 22 x 17cm approx., 254pp, half red leather over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, 89 illustrations from photographs by the author, 3 chromolithographs by Sahib, 2 folding maps
  • Condition: Very Good
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