Samuel de CHAMPLAIN
Voyages du sieur Champlain, ou Journal ès découvertes de la Nouvelle France
[The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain]
S.n. |Paris 1830|12.8 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition printed in 250 copies at the government's expense, intended to provide work for typographic workers (cf. Sabin 11841. Leclerc 697).
Contemporary half blue calf bindings, flat spines decorated with double gilt fillets and blind-stamped typographic motifs, gilt decorative rolls at foot of spines, restored with minor rubbing to the spines, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Some occasional light foxing.
A rare copy, handsomely bound in contemporary bindings.
€1,000