- Lot 226

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- Lot 226
CHINA] Georges CORMIER - The Paris Peking Raid. 4000 leagues by car. Preface by Michel Corday. Paris, Charles Delagrave, s.d. [1907]. Large in-8, blue publisher's percaline with polychrome decoration showing the departure from Peking of Cormier's Dion-Bouton in the middle of the Chinese crowd, gilt edges. ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 160 photogravures and a map out of text. Georges Cormier (Paris, 1869-1955), a De Dion tricycle and automobile pilot, took part in the Paris-Peking raid, organized by the daily newspaper "Le Matin" in 1907, on board a Dion-Bouton. He finished 3rd in the general classification of the event. A year later, he set up the first commercial agency in China in Peking; he opened a second one in Shanghai in 1911.
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