Lot n° 254
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JAPAN] Louis HAUMAN - Yokohama in flames. (Excerpts from letters). Souvenir of the disaster of September 1, 1923.
Peking, Albert Nachbaur, October 1923. In-4, paperback, illustrated cover (small lack at the tail of the spine and on the upper cover),
Rare reprint of an article from the Franco-Chinese review La Chine (n° 51), consisting of the testimony of a certain Louis Hauman, resident in Peking and eye-witness of the great earthquake which devastated Japan. Illustrated with 5 woodcuts, including 1 full page and 7 photogravure pictures, showing the ruins and the victims. Edition at 150 numbered copies (n° 7). Born into a family of French architects and decorators, Albert Nachbaur (1879-1933) settled in China after the First World War. He worked there as a journalist, bookseller and publisher.
Bibliography: on the journal, see BM Lyon; on the publisher, see Western Travellers in China, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2009, n° 86.
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