Joseph GUMILLA
Histoire naturelle, civile et géographique de l'Orénoque, et des principales rivières qui s'y jettent
Chez Desaint & Saillant • chez Jean Mossy|à Avignon • à Marseille 1758|9.50 x 16.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
Histoire naturelle, civile et géographique de l'Orénoque, et des principales rivières qui s'y jettent
The first edition in French, translated by Marc-Antoine Eidous, with a large map of “la Province et des Missions de la Compagnie de Jésus du nouveau royaume de Grenade [the Province and Missions of the Society of Jesus in the New Kingdom of Grenada” and two folding plates. The first Spanish edition, El Orinoco ilustrado, was published in Madrid in 1741.
Contemporary brown marbled calf. Spine with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as toffee-colored and red title labels, blindruled fillet frame to covers, all edges marbled.
A small wormtrack to foot of volume two,
The first edition in French, translated by Marc-Antoine Eidous, with a large map of “la Province et des Missions de la Compagnie de Jésus du nouveau royaume de Grenade [the Province and Missions of the Society of Jesus in the New Kingdom of Grenada” and two folding plates. The first Spanish edition, El Orinoco ilustrado, was published in Madrid in 1741.
Contemporary brown marbled calf. Spine with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as toffee-colored and red title labels, blindruled fillet frame to covers, all edges marbled.
A small wormtrack to foot of volume two,
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