China.- Dabry de Thiersant (Claude-Philibert) Guide des armées alliés en Chine ou dialogues sur les reconnaisances militaires en trois langues, first edition, in red morocco with the arms of Marshall Randon, Paris & London, Henri Plon & W.O. Mitchell...

China.- Dabry de Thiersant (Claude-Philibert) Guide des armées alliés en Chine ou dialogues sur les reconnaisances militaires en trois langues: Français, Anglais, Chinois avec la prononciation figurée du Chinois, suivi d'un vocabulaire Chinois, Français, Anglais, first edition, some foxing, contemporary red morocco, gilt, by Despierres, covers with large arms of Marshall Randon, couple of minor nicks, little rubbed, 8vo (binding 187 x 130mm.), Paris & London, Henri Plon & W.O. Mitchell, 1859.

⁂ A handsome association copy. A Chinese phrase book for the use of French and British soldiers during the Second Opium War in China. This copy bound for the soldier and politician Jacques Louis César Alexandre, comte Randon (1795-1871), who was Minister of War at the time of the Second Opium War. As a young soldier he had fought in Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign and risen through the ranks to General and finally Marshall of France and Governor of Algeria.