GUIGNES, Chrtien-Louis-Joseph de (1759-1845). Voyages Peking, Manille et l'Ile de France. Paris: l'Imprimerie Impriale, 1808. 4 volumes, including atlas vol., 8 (1196 x 117mm.) and 2 (441 x 298mm). Half-titles to tetxt vols. Atlas with letterpres title and plate list, otherwise engraved throughout: 97 plates and maps on 66 leaves (comprising 27 single page plates [numbered 1-27], 32 leaves printed with two images [nos. 28-91], 1 single page table [no. 92], 1 large map on two unjoined folding sheets [nos. 931 and 932], 2 folding maps [nos. 94-5] and 2 single-page maps [nos.96-7]). (Occasional browning to both text and plates, some light marginal spotting to plates.) Text: contemporary tree calf gilt, the flat spines divided into five compartments by roll-tool, black and red morocco lettering-pieces in the second and fourth (light scuffing to extremities). Atlas: old blue sheep-backed marbled boards, spine gilt (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, small split to upper joint). Provenance: L.L. (unnidentified owner's stamp). First edition of this work on China, the Phillipines and Mauritius. The author spent, in all, seventeen years in China and therefore writes with some authority. All but the two final images in the atlas volume relate to China. Brunet II.568; Hill II. p.437. (4)