Collective - Cruiser Primauguet Far East Campaign 1932-1934. - Lot 205

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Collective - Cruiser Primauguet Far East Campaign 1932-1934. - Lot 205
Collective - Cruiser Primauguet Far East Campaign 1932-1934. S.L., S.E., S.D. (circa 1934). 1 large volume in-4° (27 cm x 36 cm) in full blue percaline publisher's boards, title in white on the first cover. Missing upper right corner with loss of words. 64 pages, 276 black and white photos combined with illustrations. Anonymous text (according to the website: http://www.anciens-cols-bleus.net/t13209-primauguet-croiseur, the album would have been conceived and written by the sailor Mathurin Le Gallo, telepointer on the Primauguet. Thank you Elisabeth Brunet) relating the campaign of the cruiser from Toulon to China through Djibouti, Ceylon, Indochina, Korea, Japan and finally China, and the ascent of the Yangtze, the rescue of the Aramis and the return, plan of the campaign. A stain on the cloth otherwise good condition, well complete with photos. Attached: - The certificate of baptism of the passage of the line of Crenés, radio master on January 18, 1934. Folded, 8 pages, 22.5 cm x 33 cm, illustrations by Mas, Imprimerie Ardin, Saigon. Good condition - La gazette de Poulaine, annual newspaper of Primauguet, printed at 250 copies, date illegible (circa 1934). 1 sheet, 31 cm x 40 cm, typed. The upper right corner is missing, otherwise good condition. For the connoisseurs, this was Jacques-Yves Cousteau's first post; he appears on a photo.
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