First edition

Gerhard Friedrich MULLER

Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long des côtes de la Mer Glaciale & sur l'Ocean ...

Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1766, In-12 (10,5x17cm), x (2) 388pp. et iv, 207pp. (25), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. Title piece and tomaison in red morocco. A wormhole at the head of Volume I. Traces of friction in caps and corners. Nice copy.

1 700 €

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François LE VAILLANT

Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance

De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, à Paris 1798 (An VI), In-8 (12x19,5cm), xxxij, 385pp. et (4) 403pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with 20 plates (animals, views, camps, natives) against 12 in the first edition of 1790, including 6 unfolding, all on hard paper, including the famous board of the Hottentote apron, which is sometimes missing.
Reals in full sheepskin marbled ice. Smooth back decorated [...]

800 €

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William MAKINTOSH & John CAPPER

Voyages en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, contenant la description des moeurs, coutumes, loix, ...

Chez Regnault, à Paris 1788, In-8 (12x20cm), xxiv, 486pp. et viij, 414pp., relié.

Second edition, after the first published in 1786, at the same publisher. It is illustrated with 3 folding cards on hard paper, one from Europe, a second from the middle of Asia, a third from the North Pole.
Binders full marbled vintage brown calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. [...]

550 €

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George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]

900 €

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Auguste Comte de FORBIN

Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin

Delaunay 1819, In-8 (12x20cm), (12) 460pp., relié.

Second edition. Great leaflet of the Holy Sepulcher in fine.
Binding full brown sheepskin marbled time. Smooth spine adorned with 4 caisson grotesque crisscrossed, a central iron. Frieze framing on the boards. Title piece in chocolate morocco. Back evenly thinned. Small gaps in the bit in the [...]

500 €

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William VAUGHAN & Guillaume BLIGH

Relation des malheurs et de la captivité, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine Woodard, et ...

Chez F. Buisson & Firmin Didot, à Paris 1805-1790, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) 322 pp. ; (4) xvj, 171 pp., relié.

First edition, rare, of the French translation, illustrated with a portrait with frontispiece profile, 2 folding maps of the island of Célebès in Indonesia, and 2 figures of ships on a folding board.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves decorated with urns in [...]

1 800 €

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Jean Levesque BURIGNY de

Histoire generale de Sicile

Chez Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1745, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (14) 511pp. et (4) 454pp. (10), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Bindings plain marbled plain vintage. Back with nerves adorned with boxed glans. Title pieces in brown morocco, and tomaison in red morocco. Friction. 2 blunt corners. Head of Volume I a little soft and fragile. Beautiful paper dominated by the guards.

1 000 €

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MAISTRE DE LA TOUR

Histoire d'Ayder-Ali-Khan, ou nouveaux mémoires sur l'Inde

Chez Cailleau, à Paris 1783, In-12 (10x16,5cm), xij, 282pp. et (4) 201pp. (3), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a folding map in color.
Bindings full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Ornate smooth backs. Title and volume pieces in red morocco. Headdress of Volume 2 slightly frayed. Small lack at the head of the volume 1. Blunted corners and a little cropped.

1 200 €

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