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Jean-François de LA HARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Chez Ledoux et Tenré, à Paris 1816, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 24 volumes reliés.

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 boards.
Bindings half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back nicely adorned with anchor and ship irons, wheels and ornaments. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Little lack in the tail of Volume I and at the head of Volume 4. Tail of Volume 14 slightly removed.
Preface to L'Abrégé by Depping: "Around the year 1745, a few literary men from England formed the project of a complete collection of all travel relations published in all the languages ​​of Europe. Prévost, a writer well-known for the success of his novels, undertook to translate the work into French He kept his word, the work spread throughout Europe, but the English authors abandoning their project, the abbot continued his way, in spite of his criticisms of the vices of their method, and finished the work, without providing the reader with a thread that could lead them into the tortuous and innumerable paths, into the arid barrens of this vast labyrinth where he had sunk with them.
Here is what we thought we could do to present it to the public in a more agreeable form: it has been reduced; all that is called Journal de navigation has been cut off; When a traveler, who has seen himself in extraordinary situations, relates himself, we took care not to take his place: we let him speak without changing anything add to his story; very little change has been made in descriptions of places and manners, in physical details. But we have joined as much as we have been able to this philosophy which is absolutely lacking to him, this pure and universal morality, which is dictated and felt only by the heart, which seeks in all knowledge that man can to acquire only new reports made to attach him to his fellows. "
Volume 1 to 4: Africa, by region and country. Volume 5 to 12: Asia, by region and country. Volumes 12 to 20: Americas, by regions and countries, with Greenland and Port Boreal. Volumes 21 to 30: Travels around the world.

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