Imprimerie Royale (1815-1848))

First edition illustrated with 4 hors-texte plates of line-engraved Greek coins.

Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers.

Appointed professor of archaeology at the Sorbonne in 1820, succeeding Quatremère de Quincy,

Désiré Raoul-Rochette (1789-1854) specialized principally in Greek antiquity. He also served as curator of the Cabinet des médailles.

First edition.

Bound in full cherry red morocco, smooth spine richly gilt with romantic typographic ornaments, gilt roll tooling on the caps, boards framed with double gilt fillets and interlaced motifs with gilt corner fleurons, gilt AO monogram stamped at the center of the boards, gilt garland border on the pastedowns, moiré sky-blue silk endpapers and pastedowns, trace of a removed bookplate on one pastedown, gilt fillets on the edges, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.

The sections relating to the colonies are as follows: Martinique, pp. 199–203; Guadeloupe and dependencies, pp. 204–209; French Guiana, pp. 210–212; Bourbon, pp. 216–220; French settlements in Oceania, pp

Second edition, illustrated with a figure of a ventilator at the end of the volume (cf. Polak 4846).

Copy preserved in its original blue paper temporary wrappers.

The first edition was published in 1817.

Pierre-François Kéraudren (1769–1858) served uninterruptedly as Inspector General of the Naval Medical Service from 1813 to 1845.

A pleasant copy.

First edition.

Official series not listed in Polak.

Full red morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt roll-tooled bands at head and foot, elaborate gilt quadruple fillet frame, garland and lozenge design with gilt corner motifs on covers, gilt crowned monogram stamped in gilt at center of each board, blue moiré silk endleaves and doublures, gilt dentelle borders on doublures, gilt dotting on board edges, all edges gilt; a superb Romantic period binding.

Copy bearing the crowned monogram "FO" of Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810–1842), eldest son of King Louis-Philippe. 

A very fine copy, beautifully preserved in an out

First edition, printed in a small number of copies on laid paper, extracted from the Journal asiatique; a single copy recorded in the CCF (Strasbourg).

Rare copy preserved in its original blue paper wrappers, as issued.

Traces of a label on the left margin of the front cover, a pleasing copy overall.

Inscribed by Giovanni Antonio Arri on the upper cover to archaeologist Désiré Raoul-Rochette (1789–1854), then a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Rare first edition (cf. Borba de Moraes II, 753: "famous book of navigational bearings". Rodrigues 2144.)

Minor marginal foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a clean and appealing copy.

Contemporary-style binding in quarter tree calf with corners, smooth spine, blind-ruled panels on marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Modern binding.

Baron Roussin (1781–1854) explored the coasts of Brazil in 1819–1820, during which he charted and described the Abrolhos archipelago—later made famous by Darwin’s observations aboard HMS Beagle (1832).

Manuscript ownership inscription: Guillotin.

A rare original edition, printed in a limited number of copies, of this extract from the Journal asiatique.

The work is illustrated with two folding plates at the end of the volume.

Contemporary half havana calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, rubbed joints, library classification label pasted at the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges.

The Libyco-Punic monument of Dougga (Tunisia), also known as the Mausoleum of Atban, is one of the few well-preserved examples of Punic architecture still extant. It bore a bilingual inscription (Libyco / Punic) which was clumsily removed from the monument in 1842 by the British co

First edition. 

Official series not recorded by Polak. 

Contemporary full cherry-red morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt roll tooling partly worn at the spine ends, covers with a wide panel of sextuple gilt fillets and Romantic arabesques, corner ornaments in gilt, crowned "FO" cipher stamped in gilt at the centre of each cover, doublures and endpapers lined with azure watered silk, gilt garland frame to the doublures, corners slightly rubbed, all edges gilt, an elegant Romantic binding of the period.

A few dark stains to the covers, occasional foxing mainly affecting the endpapers.

Copy from the library of Ferdinand-Philippe

First edition.

Contemporary half lemon calf binding, spine darkened and smooth, decorated with gilt quintuple fillets and garlands, black shagreen title label, rubbing to the spine and spine ends, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, a few nicks to the edges, contemporary binding.

Some light foxing, rubbing and small losses of paper at the corners of the boards, library shelfmark stamp to a flyleaf and the title page.

Only edition: despite the similarity of subject matter, this work should not be confused with the "Rudiments de la langue hindoustani" by the same author.

Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878) was a French orien

An offprint from the Description de l'Égypte; the paper was read during the expedition itself before the members of the Institut d'Égypte on 1 Frimaire, Year IX [22 November 1800].

See Meulenaere, p. 125.

Bradel binding in full red boards, smooth spine, red title label mounted lengthwise, the upper cover very lightly and marginally faded; modern binding.

A civil engineer with the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées, Michel-Ange Lancret (1774–1807) had been tasked with gathering the movable goods abandoned by the Mamluks during their flight, which in part supplied the material for this memoir.

First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this interesting report extracted from the Annales maritimes et coloniales of 1839 (cf. Polak 2837).

Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, with a plain blue-grey cover.

Tears to the spine and to the margins of the covers, some foxing, notably on the title page.

First edition in French of the translation, corrections, additions and clarifications, established by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud in 1845, from the Arabic text printed in 1811 under the care of Louis Langlès.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, original covers preserved, binding signed Thomas Boichot.
Very rare copy without foxing.