Paris

First edition and the first printing of the plates. Plate volume only.
Bradel binding of marbled paper boards by T. Boichot, preserved covers repaired and laid down.
This copy retains its 18 plates mounted on guards, but lacks the title page, showing details of the work undertaken to remove the western obelisk at Luxor, as well as various sites and costumes in Egypt linked to the places visited by the expedition.
Tiny wormtracks occasionally affecting some engravings, dampstain to upper margin, traces of sewing to inner margin.
Very rare.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, date at bottom, one joint cracked at head and foot (to a length of 2cm), lower corners rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers (with small angular lacks) preserved.
Autograph inscription signed by Emile Zola to the journalist Henri Morel.
A little light spotting.

WELD Isaac
Voyage au Canada – et dans la partie septentrionale des états-Unis de l’Amérique –, dans les années 1795, 1796 et 1797
Chez Gerard, Imprimerie de Munier, Paris 1799 (An 8), in-8 (12 x 20 cm), (4) viij, 321 pp & 344 pp & (4) 294 pp., 3 volumes, contemporary sheep
First French edition, with a large folding map of Canada and 11 steel-engraved plates after drawings by the author (Niagara Falls, Diamond Cape, etc.).
Contemporary half brown sheep, spine decorated with four compartments with tools, roulettes to foot. Red morocco title label and green morocco volume labels. Speckled edges. Binder’s label: Grosclaude à Metz. A good copy.
This voyage was undertaken by the author in the hope of finding a place where the Irish could settle. It is, nonetheless, still a classic account of a voyage, with a special eye to commerce and agriculture. The author spent two years traveling, starting from Philadelphia, in North-Eastern America and Canada, with Native American guides.

First edition. Nice copy.