Lot 345

P. Dabry de Thiersant, La pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Paris 1872.

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Lot: 345
Category: Geography and work of views
Dabry de Thiersant, Claude-Philibert: La Pisciculture et la Pêche en Chine. Précédé d'une introduction sur la Pisciculture. Paris: Librairie de G. Masson 1872. With 51 plates (L+ XXXVbis). Pages: IX pp., 1 blank page, 173 pp., 1 blank page, 1 page, pp. 18 (178) – 192 as supplementary sheets. Modern red half-leather

(Dirty edges throughout and slight foxing.)

Plates I–XXXV illustrate fishing methods and equipment. Plates XXXVI to L depict fish. J. L. Soubeiran wrote the foreword. Claude-Philibert Dabry de Thiersant was a French naval officer, diplomat and sinologist. The Chinese sources used by Dabry and Soubeiran are still preserved today in the University Library of Montpellier.