Histoire de la Conquete de la Chine par les Tartares Mancheoux

China.- Jouve (Jean-Baptiste) Histoire de la Conquete de la Chine par les Tartares Mancheoux, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, titles in red and black, contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, a few small worm-holes, [Cordier, Sinica I, 629-630; Lust 436], 12mo, Lyon, chez les Freres Duplain, 1754.

⁂ First edition of Jouve's history of the conquest of China by the Manchus. It was written under the pseudonym Vojeu de Brunem. "Cordier deduced that the pseudonym was a mixture of an anagram and four other letters. The anagram stood for Father Joseph d'Embrun, i.e. Joseph Baptiste Jouve who was born in Embrun" (Lust).