Antoine DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE

Voyage pittoresque de Paris, ou description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette grande ...

Chez de Bure, à Paris 1770, In 12 (10x17cm), x, 496pp. (6), relié.

Third augmented edition of this important artistic guide of the Paris of Louis XV. A title-frontispice engraved in colors by J. Robert & 5 inset plates including 2 unfolding by Choffart, Saint-Aubin. Four of them, signed Choffard (1730-1809), reproduce the illustrations of the previous edition [...]

450 €

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Pierre Charles LEVESQUE

Histoire de Russie

Chez Debure l'aîné, à Paris 1782, In-12 (10x17cm), xlviij, 442pp. et (4) 516pp. et (4) 570pp. et (4) 548pp. et (4) 565pp. (3), relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 large folding maps of Western Russia and Eastern Russia.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. back with ornate nerves, wheels in tails and heads. Title piece in red morocco, pieces of tomaison with black wax. A wormhole along the upper joint at the end of Volume [...]

1 500 €

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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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