Lot 345
P. Dabry de Thiersant, La pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Paris 1872.
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Lot:
345
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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.
(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.