Atlas of the Pavie Mission: Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Yunnan, and Vietnam: Volume 2 - The Pavie Mission Indochina Papers, 1879-1895 by Pavie, Auguste

Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1999. First edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. 193; 70 full page maps (most in color), 11 Atlas-Maps (all in color), 45 full page plates (most in color). Color pictorial stiff wrappers, lg 4to. Translated and composed by Walter E. J. Tips. This is the atlas volume to accompany the Pavie Mission Indochina Papers, 1879-1895. The various French expeditions, carried out by a score of prominent researchers under the name “Mission Pavie”, not only compiled a wealth of new scientific and historical information and details on natural history they also drew up accurate maps for areas where no western mapping work had previously been undertaken. This atlas also contains many color plates, masterpieces of the art of the time that were incorporated in various research reports of the mission (from the rear wrapper blurb).