Collection of 34 propaganda flyers issued by the Viet Cong and distributed throughout the Red Light districts of South Vietnam during the Vietnamese War to entice Vietnamese and US soldiers to switch sides.
Price: $1200.00
Collection of 34 propaganda flyers issued by the Viet Cong and distributed throughout the Red Light districts of South Vietnam during the Vietnamese War to entice Vietnamese and US soldiers to switch sides.
Price: $1200.00
Internal government bulletin on progress on the war in Indochina for the period May 12-18, 1954. The conclusion talks about the aftermath of the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the next steps.
Price: $180.00
Rare publication by La Vie Technique, Industrielle, Agricole & Coloniale promoting French colonies. This issue is devoted to Indo-China. AH
Price: $200.00
Early French chromo card of the 1884 French attack on Fou-Tcheou. B
Price: $20.00
Collection of 35 illustrations from French and Italian periodicals on the early French incursion into Cambodia. Much on the looting of antiquities. B
Price: $990.00
Fascinating archive from the estate of Jean Pierre Freulon, who was the key person responsible for establishing a prosthetic workshop in Laos in 1959. He returned to help establish the Centre D’Orthopedie du Laos in the early 1960’s. Over 130 unique photos and an archive of correspondence from 1960-1963 between Freulon and the Laotian authorities as well as various French government ministries, correspondence with the director of the Bureau des Anciens Combattants, job descriptions for positions the government was seeking to fill, the list of 14 top Laotian government and military personnel meeting with Freulon, list of amputees by province, some letters marked TOP SECRET or CONFIDENTIAL, minutes of the meeting of the Rotary Club of Phnom-Penh held on March 24, 1971, May 26, 1971 and June 4, 1971, a list of designated suppliers and supplies showing contract amounts, a 6 page technical notice relating to the services to the Centre de Readaptation, photos of the small model of the new Center. The photos all focus on the production of prosthetics and rehabilitation as well as a visit by Bob Evans from the Asia Foundation. Prince Souvanna Phouma, premier of Loas, attends the opening of the Centre. The archive measures 26cm in height. A rare subject on the eve of US involvement in Vietnam.
Price: $9000.00
August 1, 1968 Mexican comic book Entre Los Pigmeos. B
Price: $90.00
Postcard written by a French soldier serving in French Indochina in 1918. B
Price: $20.00
Collection of 51 illustrations from French periodicals of the Sino-French War, 1883-1885. B
Price: $990.00
Note: Sino-French War, conflict between China and France in 1883–85 over Vietnam, which disclosed the inadequacy of China’s modernization efforts and aroused nationalistic sentiment in southern China.
The French had already begun to encroach on Vietnam, China’s major protectorate in the south, and by 1880 France controlled the three southern provinces, known as Cochinchina. In the 1880s the French began to expand northward in Vietnam, stationing troops in Hanoi and Haiphong. The Chinese responded by building up their forces in the area and engaging the French in a series of limited battles.
In 1882 the great Chinese statesman Li Hongzhang negotiated an agreement with France in which the two countries agreed to make the area a joint protectorate. That agreement, however, was rejected by Paris, which dispatched additional troops to Tonkin (Tongking; northern Vietnam).
Meanwhile, a war party emerged within the Qing government in China and began to pressure the court to take a harder line. But Chinese reinforcements were quickly defeated by the French (1883), and the wavering court attempted to seek a new settlement.The subsequent Li–Fournier Convention called for the admittance of French trade through the Tonkin area, the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the area, and the recognition of French rights in Tonkin. In return, China was not required to pay any indemnity.
Meanwhile, the war party again became dominant in China, and it refused to accept any loss of sovereignty over Vietnam. Hostilities were therefore resumed. Zhang Zhidong, one of the leading hawks, was appointed to take command of the land forces. He was successful against French forces that had attempted to advance north into southern China, but at sea the new Chinese fleet of 11 steamers was destroyed. The great Fuzhou(Foochow) shipyard, which China had built with French aid, was also demolished. A peace treaty was finally signed at Paris in 1885 in which China agreed to recognize the Li–Fournier agreement.
Issue No. 75 of History of the 20th Century. Section on Indonesia gaining Independence. B
Price: $35.00