77/ 908 [China]. Album des Familles Lou et Bovy. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1930), 14 photogr. plates w. French, English and German captions, orig. wr., obl. 4to.

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= Nice and rare familiy album of Chinese diplomat and twice prime minister Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871-1949) and his Belgian spouse Berthe-Françoise-Eugénie Bovy. Lou converted to catholicism and in 1927, after the death of his wife, entered the clergy under the name Dom Pierre-Célestin, in the Benedictine monastery of Sint-Andries in Bruges, Belgium. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "au Réverend Frère Supérieur Saint Gregorius-[?] Utrecht. Dom Pierre Célestin Lou, O.S.B. En l'Octave de l'Assomption 1934." on frontwr.