[ANGKOR WAT - FRENCH COLONIAL LITERATURE] BRANDA, PAUL. (PSEUDONYM OF PAUL ÉMILE MARIE REVEILLÈRE)

Ça et La: Cochinchine et Cambodge: L'Ame Khmere Ang-Kor. [Here and there:
Cochinchina and Cambodia, the Khmer soul, Ang-Kor.]

Paris. Librairie Fischbacher. 1886. First Edition. Stock ID #223737

Half title, publisher's advertisement, title page in red and black with publisher's vignette (iv) + 451 pp; modern full red morocco, spine with raised bands and black title labels gilt lettered, 18 x 12 cms, the original title wrappers bound in (browned and stained), scant foxing mainly affecting the contents leaves, but the text clean and bright, in very good condition.

Scarce French colonial travel memoir and cultural study written by Rear Admiral Paul-Émile-Marie Réveillère (1829–1908) under the pseudonym Paul Branda. He served as the Commander of the French Navy in Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) from August 1884 to August 1886. The work offers firsthand insights into French gunboat diplomacy in Southeast Asia and early European romanticization of the Khmer culture and Angkor ruins.

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