#OA5
Ca. 1925
First Edition (one of 400 copies). Oblong Folio (27.5 x 37cm). 173 pp. With 456 monochrome photogravures of various sizes and colours. Handsome period red gilt tooled half morocco with red pebbled cloth boards and with original publishers pictorial wrappers bound in. Covers mildly bumped and rubbed, but overall a very good copy.
With portraits of the Governor General of French Indochina, Alexandre Varenne (1870-1947) and Governor of Cochinchina Dr. Cognac as a two sided frontispiece. Included are urban and rural views of Cochinchina grouped by province, each provincial section being prefaced with a short descriptive text. This work is a detailed and important iconography of Cochinchina, "a region encompassing the southern third of current Vietnam whose principal city is Saigon or Prey Nokor in Khmer. It was a French colony from 1862 to 1954"(Wikipedia).
