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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Jean-Baptiste Benoît EYRIES & Jean-Baptiste DEPERTHES

Histoire des naufrages

Ledoux et Tenré, Paris 1818, In-12 (10,5x17,3cm), (4) 399pp. (2) et 471pp. (2) et 390pp. (1), 3 volumes reliés.

New edition after the first published in 1781 by Deperthes in one volume, it is increased in this edition of 2 volumes. 3 frontispieces and 3 figures by Gossec and engraved by Lignon.
Binding half black sheepskin ca 1840. Back with false nerves adorned with boxes, wheels and golden nets. Good [...]

500 €

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DE LA COSTE

Voyage philosophique d'Angleterre, fait en 1783 et 1784

Chez Poinçot, à Paris 1787, Pet. in-8 (11x18,5cm), (16) 260pp. ; 248pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding in half brown maroon brown contemporary. Smooth back with castors. Havana veal title piece. boards of root paper. 3 holes in tail of worms. A break in the lead. Rubbing with cuffs, bits, borders.

150 €

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Mungo PARK

Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797, par M. Mungo Park

Chez Dentu, à Paris 1799 (An XII), In-8 (11,5x19,8cm), xij, 412pp. et (4) 376pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition illustrated with a portrait at the frontispiece, 2 boards of botany, 3 views and 3 folding maps.
Bindings of half brown contemporary brown. Back Jansenists. Parts of title in red morocco, pieces of tomato in green morocco. A snag at the tail of volume 2.

780 €

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Hans SLOANE

Histoire de la Jamaïque

Chez Nourse, à Londres 1751, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) 285pp. et (4) 248pp., 2 volumes reliés.

SLOANE Hans
Histoire de la Jamaïque
Chez Nourse, à Londres 1751, in-12 (9,5 x 17 cm),
(4) 285 pp & (4) 248 pp., 2 volumes, contemporary calf
First edition in French, translated by Raulin, six folding plates at [...]

1 200 €

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