[PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS]. FESTETICS DE TOLNA, Rodolphe. V - Lot 256

[PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS]. FESTETICS DE TOLNA, Rodolphe. Vers l'écueil de Minicoy, after eight years in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1904. In-8, paperback, white paperback cover printed in brown. 395 pages, 174 folding engravings and maps in and out of text, based on the author's photographs and documents. Spine split and torn, cover browned in places, seams fragile. First edition of this account of the voyage undertaken by Festetics de Tolna in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, between December 1895 and January 1900, according to the following itinerary: Munia - Faisi [Shortland Islands] - Son Cay - Siriai - Île du Refuge - Baie de Rottembourg - Nouma-Nouma - Île de Pétat - New Ireland - Ungalik [New Hanover] - Île de Nakoung - Île Saint-George - île de l'Oiseau - île de l'Amirauté - Yokohama - Kobé - Hongkong - île de Soulou - Siassi - Bornéo - Kondat - Labouan - Singapour - Malaca - Colombo [Ceylan] - Kandy - Neuera-Ellia - Minicoy [shipwreck: Feb. 19 1900] - Alexandria - Trieste - Vienna. A fascinating picture of "colonial life and society in Oceania", abundantly illustrated with the author's own photographs and documents. Clean and fresh inside.