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du Fleuve Bleu. Voyage de la Première Canonnière Française Sur le Haut Yang-Tse-Kiang. Préface de M. Jules Lemaitre. Librarie Plon 1904.
1st Ed. [vi] + [iii] + 369pp. Rubric t.p., 37 plates, ills., folding map. French text. Some light browning, original gilt lettered cloth, spine sl. bumped, t.e.g. Émile Auguste Léon Hourst (1864-1940). In 1901, he was sent to China to study the possibilities of navigating the Yang-tse-kiang after Yichang . Seconde Mission Hourst
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