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The first volume (Australia) is illustrated with two beautiful folding maps enhanced in color and 2 photographic portraits out of text (prints on laminated albumen paper, 90 x 60 mm), including that of King Tatambo as the frontispiece.
The second volume (Java, Siam, Canton) contains a color folding map and 14 engravings-photographs by Deschamps
the third volume (Beijing, Yeddo, San Francisco) contains 4 color maps and 15 engraving-photographs by Deschamps.
Count Ludovic de Beauvoir (March 29, 1846 – December 10, 1929) was a 19th century French traveller.
When he was only 19, he embarked with his childhood friend the Duke of Penthièvre on a trip around the world, which from 1865 to 1867 took him to Australia, the Dutch Indies (today Indonesia), Siam (now Thailand), China, Japan and the United States.
Upon his return in 1867, Beauvoir published the first two volumes of his travelogue: Australia and Java, Siam, Canton, which met with enormous success. He recounts his arrival in Melbourne, his travels in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales and talks about the gold mines of Victoria. It recounts the great crocodile and rhinoceros hunts in Java and describes the splendor of the lifestyle of Javanese princes and nobility. In Siam, Beauvoir witnesses strange ceremonies, including the king's cremation rites. After a brief stay in Hong Kong, he went to Macao, from where destitute Chinese left for California.
In 1870-1871, Beauvoir took part in the Franco-German war. He is decorated with the Legion of Honor and enters the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He published the third volume of his trip around the world, Beijing, Yeddo, San Francisco, in 1872. In it he gave all sorts of unusual details about China and Japan.
Contemporary bound copy. Half brown sheepskin. Smooth spine decorated with gilded irons. Rubbed leather, Tears to upper caps. volumes 2, 3 and mors sup. of volume 2 (3 cm). Traces of use on the dishes. Solid volumes. Interiors: burnished endpapers, waterstaining in upper margin. of the title and approx. the first 30 pages of volume 3. Tear without lack for the map of Australia (10 cm), rare foxing. Small angular lack on the last table leaf of volume 3.
Ludovic count of Beauvoir
Voyage around the World (3 flights: Australia; Java, Siam, Canton; Beijing, Yeddo, San Francisco)
Paris, Henri Plon, 1867-1874
in-8 (17.5 x 11.5 cm); x-363+451+359pp.
Subject: Cte Beauvoir Travel Australia Java Siam Beijing San Francisco Maps Original photographs 67454907
