Pierre-Adolphe LESSON
Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du gouvernement sur la corvette La Coquille
N. J. Gregoir • Wouters et cie|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1839|14.50 x 22.50 cm|4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
Belgian first edition, published the same year as the French edition; and illustrated with 4 lithographs.
Contemporary half glazed camel calf binding. Spine with flat false bands decorated with 3 blind-stamped fleurons, with roulettes on the bands and blind fillets. Chocolate shagreen title and volume labels.
By deliberate aesthetic choice and to correspond to the binding in two volumes, only two title pages have been retained, volume I and volume II, each at the beginning of each volume, thus in the volumes, the chapters follow without transition; chapter VIII following chapter VII from the end of the first volume...
Handsome copy, very fresh.
This scientific circumnavig
Contemporary half glazed camel calf binding. Spine with flat false bands decorated with 3 blind-stamped fleurons, with roulettes on the bands and blind fillets. Chocolate shagreen title and volume labels.
By deliberate aesthetic choice and to correspond to the binding in two volumes, only two title pages have been retained, volume I and volume II, each at the beginning of each volume, thus in the volumes, the chapters follow without transition; chapter VIII following chapter VII from the end of the first volume...
Handsome copy, very fresh.
This scientific circumnavig
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