Baron d'Anthouard

1) China against the Foreigners. The Boxers by Baron d'Anthouard, First Secretary of the French Legation in Peking - Work accompanied by twenty-two engravings and plans - Third edition - Paris, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Printers-Editors, 1902 - Very good condition - Half blue morocco binding, smooth spine with title piece, marbled boards, brown marbled flyleaves and endpapers, 361 pages, format: 18 x 13 cm - Table of contents: see photos - 2) The Last Days of Peking by Pierre Loti of the French Academy - Paris, Calmann Lévy, Publisher 1901 - First edition - Half blue cloth binding, smooth spine with title piece, marbled boards, 464 pages, format: 18 x 13 cm - Table of contents: see photos - Very good condition - 3) The Drama of Peking in 1900 by L. Debroas - Work illustrated with 23 engravings and photographs - Saint-Augustin Society Desclée, De Brouwer & Co., Paris-Lille 1903 - Publisher's full blue leather (percaline) binding decorated on the upper board with a broad floral composition, depicting lotus flowers emerging from muddy waters, symbol of purity in China, smooth spine titled and adorned, rear board illustrated in the center with the same motif: the lotus flower, 289 pages, format in 4° (27.5 x 19.5 cm), frontispiece: Portrait in a medallion of Monseigneur Favier, Bishop of Peking - Table of contents: see photos - Good condition: the binding is worn and the headpieces are very slightly worn, but there are no foxing marks and the quires are securely bound - These three works are historical narratives and testimonies on the Boxer Rebellion (the anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in China in 1900) and on the siege of the legations in Peking. They include military analyses, descriptions of the battles of Tian-Tsin and Peking, documents and the transcriptions of the authors, Baron d'Anthouard and Pierre Loti (Debroas was not in Peking), witnesses of the era who experienced these terrible events up close -

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