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Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus à Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et à Boukhara; et retour par la Perse, pendant les années 1831, 1832 et 1833. Traduits par J.-B.-B. Eyriès[Travels from the Mouth of the Indus to Lahore, Kabul, Balkh and Bukhara, and Back through Persia, during the Years 1831, 1832 and 1833. Translated by J.-B.-B. Eyriès]
Claude ARTHUS-BERTRAND|Paris 1835|13.2 x 21.5 cm pour les volumes de texte & 14,8 x 25,3 cm pour le volume d'atlas|3 volumes reliés + 1 atlas
First edition of the French translation, illustrated in the atlas volume with 11 plates and 1 large folding map (cf. Hage Chahine, 720; Chadenat, 4227; Wilson, 35 for the 1835 English edition).
Contemporary Romantic bindings in aubergine half calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt arabesque tooling, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled-paper boards, and marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
The atlas bound in aubergine half shagreen, smooth spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesque tooling, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled-paper boards, and marbled endpapers and pastedowns; a modern binding executed to match the Romantic bindings of the text volumes.
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€2,800