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Paul D’IVOI Cicada In China

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Paul d’IVOI 
Cicada in China

Paris, Acienne bookstore Furne, Combet et Cie, undated (1901), « Les voyages eccentrics », in 4°, 23 x 31 cm., 462 pp., complete with the folding map of the city of Beijing at the beginning of the work, pretty cardboard box from the publisher in full red cloth signed J. FAU and bound by Nerson, with beveled edges, 1st cover decorated with a beautiful polychrome composition according to Bombled, blunt corners, wear on head cape ,edge gilded, loose notebooks, one hinge (interior) cracked, interior well preserved however.

 First edition illustrated by Louis BOMBLED with 100 wood engravings in the text and 20 large out-of-text compositions, including 8 monochrome in red, blue or sepia. A young Parisian Cigale, at the heart of the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Paul d’IVOI  Cicada in China Paris, Acienne bookstore Furne, Combet et Cie, undated (1901), « Les voyages eccentrics », in 4°, 23 x 31 cm., 462 pp., complete with the folding map of the city of Beijing at the beginning of the work, pretty cardboard box from the publisher in full red cloth signed J. FAU and bound by Nerson, with beveled edges, 1st cover decorated with a beautiful polychrome composition according to Bombled, blunt corners, wear on head cape ,edge gilded, loose notebooks, one hinge (interior) cracked, interior well preserved however.  First edition illustrated by Louis BOMBLED with 100 wood engravings in the text and 20 large out-of-text compositions, including 8 monochrome in red, blue or sepia. A young Parisian Cigale, at the heart of the Boxer Rebellion in China.