Jacques Herold Illus (2 results)

8vo. pp [40]. Original publisher's pale blue covers, lettered black and red. Text in French. From the library of John Lewis (1912-1996), typographer, book designer, author and illustrator with his bookplate. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being no. 293. Very faint rubbing, otherwise very good plus.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 12mo ptdwraps; french flaps/card covers NF: 76pp. "French writer, Victor Segalen was born in Brest on January 14, 1878. After solid classical studies with the Jesuits, he studied medicine in Brest, Rennes and Bordeaux, and became a naval doctor in 1902; though largely forgotten today, was a real force in his age. "French writer, Victor Segalen was born in Brest on January 14, 1878. After solid classical studies with the Jesuits, he studied medicine in Brest, Rennes and Bordeaux, and became a naval doctor in 1902. His thesis entitled Les Cliniciens ès lettres in which he studied the medical documentation of certain naturalist writers. He detached a chapter from it: Les Synesthesias et l'école symboliste, a vigorous plea in favor of the symbolists was published in the Mercure de France of April 1902. This poet was also a sinologist and an archaeologist. The official archaeological mission formed by Victor Segalen, Gilbert de Voisins and Jean Lartigue, discovered in 1914 the oldest Chinese monumental statue and identified the burial site of Emperor Qinshihuang whose exploration was to be sixty years later. the greatest discovery of the century.= Connaissance de L'Est.".