BERNE (Mauricette), ed. Victor Segalen - Lot 20

BERNE (Mauricette), ed. Victor Segalen Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999. A comprehensive exhibition catalog dedicated to Victor Segalen, one of the most unique figures in 20th-century French literature. A naval physician, explorer, archaeologist, sinologist, poet, and aesthete, Segalen devoted his life to discovering the “elsewhere” and reflecting on cultural diversity. Richly illustrated with manuscripts, photographs, drawings, works of art, and previously unpublished documents held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this volume sheds light on the writer as well as the collector, the traveler to Polynesia, and the explorer of Imperial China. Description: Large quarto, illustrated paperback. Numerous reproductions. Very good condition.