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Carne, Louis de Travels in Indo-China and the Chinese Empire. With a Notice of the Author by the Count de Carne. Translated from the French. London Chapman and Hall 1872
First English edition pp.xxi, 365, folding map. A near fine copy in original cloth. Bookplate of F.J. Meijer.

Louis de Carne served on the Mekong River Expedition as representative of the French Foreign Ministry. His relations with other members of the expedition, particularly Garnier, were poor, and after the expedition he vigorously criticised Garnier for not giving sufficient credit to the deceased Doudart de Lagree. Carne himself died of dysentry contracted on the expedition before publication of his book.