This works is illustrated by approximately 225 wood engravings of photographs, a few of which are duplicated in the four albums (totalling 200 albumen photo prints) in, "Le Tonkin : vue photographiques du Tonkin prises par M. le Docteur Hocquard, Médecin-Majeur" held in the Getty Library (and elsewhere).

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This book details Hocquard's adventures as a military doctor and the people and places he encountered in the Tonkin, but it says nothing of his own photography. Charles Edouard Hocquard arrived in Tonkin in 1884 as a Médecin-Majeur in the French army, the same year that Tonkin (the northern part of Vietnam) became a French protectorate. These photographs on which the illustrations are based date to the era directly after the Tonkin War, when France was engaged in a struggle with the Chinese rulers of Tonkin for control of the Protectorate. The images show this conflict and document the various peoples, buildings and scenes found in Tonkin.

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