<p><em>"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road</em>."</p> <p>&nbsp;(Jack Kerouac, On the Road)</p>

On the Road Again

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

 (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)

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On the Road Again
  1. Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672. & 1673
    Johann Michael VANSLEB, VANSLEBEN

    Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672. & 1673

    Chez Estienne Michallet|à Paris 1677|8.50 x 15.50 cm (In-12)|relié

    First edition, rare and valuable.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt tooling. Binding with some surface wear. Losses to the joints at headcap and to the upper joint at tail. One corner rubbed.

    €800
  2. Anecdotes espagnoles et portugaises
    Guillaume BERTOUX

    Anecdotes espagnoles et portugaises

    Chez Vincent|à Paris 1773|10.50 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. 2 corners slightly bumped. Missing one marbled endpaper in volume I. Otherwise a handsome copy.
    Chronological history of Spain and Portugal in the form of anecdotes, that is to say short articles. The Anecdotes are skillful compilations, not without critical spirit, and allow one to have at hand in a very practical manner the history of a nation.
    €550
  3. Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie
    John PERRY

    Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie

    Chez André Cailleau|à Paris 1718|9.50 x 16.50 cm|3 parties reliées en un volume
    New French edition, quite rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Peter I and a large folding map. Reprint of the original French edition published in 1717 by Jean Boudot.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, ornamented. Head cap partly worn. Surface damage to boards. Rubbing to headcaps and edges.
    This edition was provided by Hugony, following Peter I's voyage to France. Like the texts then available on Russia, this is a 17th-century account by an English engineer who was employed in Russia for many years; the strictly historical sections have been updated. This account is highly esteemed; it is the first to have given us accurate notions about...
    €1,000
  4. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 126. (Figures de divinités et bas-reliefs).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON, GALIEN (sculpsit)

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 126. (Figures de divinités et bas-reliefs).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|40.50 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'.

    Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

    €120
  5. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 129. (Figures astronomiques et autres tableaux et bas-reliefs).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON, GALIEN (sculpsit)

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 129. (Figures astronomiques et autres tableaux et bas-reliefs).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|39.50 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'.

    Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

    €150
  6. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 109. (Poisson du Nil, Tête de chameau <br/> Portraits).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Planche 109. (Poisson du Nil, Tête de chameau <br/> Portraits).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|40.50 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'.

    Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

    €170
  7. Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert
    Amédée JAUBERT

    Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert

    Chez Pelicier • et Nepveu|à Paris 1821|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
    First edition, rare, illustrated with a very large folding map of the regions between Constantinople and Tehran, and 9 lithographs (by Aubry, Vernet...), and a frontispiece portrait of the Persian prince Albas Mirza.
    Restoration period half light brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets and tools; roulette at foot. Marbled edges. Rubbing to boards, but handsome copy with perfectly fresh paper.
    Amédé Jaubert, orientalist, was first taken by Napoleon to Egypt where he served as interpreter; in 1805 he was entrusted with an important diplomatic mission to Iran where he was to negotiate with the Shah to establish France's position in that region. During his journey, he...
    €1,600
  8. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Vue d'Ajaccio en Corse. 2. Vue de Fréjus. (Planche 91).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON, COINY (sculpsit)

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Vue d'Ajaccio en Corse. 2. Vue de Fréjus. (Planche 91).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|40 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original in folio engraving untrimmed, from Vivant Denon's Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte.
    Plate composed of 2 views described by the author as follows: No. 1. View of Ajaccio, small town that became famous for being the birthplace of a great man; I have represented our arrival there (see the Journal, volume II, page 341). No. 2. View of Fréjus, from the Aix gate side; I have represented the moment when the two frigates bringing Bonaparte back to France enter the port of this town; an event that belongs to history, and will become through it a more lasting monument than the Roman amphitheatre whose ruins can be seen in the foreground of the print.
    Some foxing, otherwise...
    €180
  9. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Ruines d'un Temple près Chnubis. 2. Vue d'Ombos. 3. Vue des Ruines de Chnubis. (Planche 75).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON, G. MALBESTE (sculpsit)

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Ruines d'un Temple près Chnubis. 2. Vue d'Ombos. 3. Vue des Ruines de Chnubis. (Planche 75).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|40 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original print folio, taken from Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of three views as described by the author: No.1 ruins of a temple near Chnubis, seven or eight hundred yards from the walls of the city: this little monument, like the Hermitage, the edge of the desert, has a very imposing character; a sanctuary of ancient times was surrounded after a rotating gallery, which was completed by two portals that are destroyed. Desired I should make more views because all its aspects were equally noble and picturesque; nudity soil round the monument leaves no doubt about the isolation in which he was all the time, and there ought not to look for the existence of a lost...
    €250
  10. Le voyage forcé de Becafort hypocondriaque. Qui s'imagine être indispensablement obligé de dire ou d'écrire, & qui dit ou écrit en effet, sans aucun égard, tout ce qu'il pense des autres & de lui-même, sur quelque matière que ce soit
    Abbé Laurent BORDELON

    Le voyage forcé de Becafort hypocondriaque. Qui s'imagine être indispensablement obligé de dire ou d'écrire, & qui dit ou écrit en effet, sans aucun égard, tout ce qu'il pense des autres & de lui-même, sur quelque matière que ce soit

    Chez Jean Musier|à Paris 1709|9 x 16 cm|relié
    The rare first edition.
    Modern cream parchment paper boards binding. Black sheep title label.
    Like all satirical works by Abbé Bordelon, this is a curious and unclassifiable work in which a narrator travels in the company of Becafort, relating his thoughts, speeches and dialogues; the work teems with criticisms and reflections on social progress, women's independence, the occult sciences... It is a journey without any consideration for the journey itself, warns the narrator.
    €400
  11. Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays
    William BULLOCK

    Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays

    Alexis Eymery|Paris 1824|12.50 x 20 cm|relié

    BULLOCK William
    Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays
    Alexis Eymery, Paris 1824, in-8 (12,5 x 20m) and one atlas atlas in-8 landscape format(20 x 26,5 cm), (4) III, LXXII, 364 pp & (4) 370 pp., (2) and a large atlas in-8 landscape format, 11 pp., 2 volumes, publisher's binding
    First French edition. The first English edition preceded it by a few months. The atlas is made up of a portrait of the author, 2 folding maps of Mexico, 12 lithographed plates (view of Mexico, Veracruz, Puebla, and sculptures), and 5...
    €1,200
  12. Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Vue de Thèbes du plus loin qu'on peut l'appercevoir. 2. Vue de Qarnâc. 3. Autre vue de Qarnâc. (Planche 43).<br />
    Dominique VIVANT DENON, BALTARD (sculpsit)

    Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Vue de Thèbes du plus loin qu'on peut l'appercevoir. 2. Vue de Qarnâc. 3. Autre vue de Qarnâc. (Planche 43).<br />

    Didot|Paris 1803|40.50 x 54 cm|une feuille
    Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]'.

    Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

    €230
  13. Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les montagnes et les lacs du Cumberland et du Westmoreland. Traduit de l'anglais sur la troisième édition, par M. Guedon de Berchere
    William GILPIN

    Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les montagnes et les lacs du Cumberland et du Westmoreland. Traduit de l'anglais sur la troisième édition, par M. Guedon de Berchere

    Chez Defer de Maisonneuve|à Paris 1789|12 x 19.30 cm|2 volumes reliés
    French first edition, very rare. Illustrated with 28 plates including 2 containing two figures in Volume 2, 15 for volume I and 13 for volume II, as announced by the description of figures at the beginning of the work. Most of these plates are in aquatint and were drawn by the author. Some maps.
    One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, nothing in French or English catalogues. The second French edition appeared in 1801.
    Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine with romantic tooling along the length, uniformly sunned. Boards stamped with a large romantic plate in blind. Joints cracked. Institution Chapusot stamped at foot. Rubbing.
    This journey to...
    €600
  14. Lexicon geographicum. In quo universi orbis Urbes, Provinciae, Regna, Maria, & Flumina recensentur
    Philippus FERRARIUS

    Lexicon geographicum. In quo universi orbis Urbes, Provinciae, Regna, Maria, & Flumina recensentur

    Apud Franciscum Muguet [François MUGUET]|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • (Paris) 1670|23.50 x 39 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition. Large printer's vignette depicting the adoration of the Magi. Epistle to Colbert with a headpiece by Chauveau and a large initial. Printed in two columns.
    Contemporary full vellum binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Title and volume number in black ink. Part of the upper headcap of volume I missing. Lower headcap of volume II split. Upper joint of volume I cracked across three compartments. Worming to spine of volume II, sometimes quite extensive. Wormholes to spines of both volumes. Paper often yellowed.
    Vast geographical repertoire composed in dictionary form by Ferrarius, expanded and revised by Michel Antoine Baudrand (the scholarly editor). The work...
    €850
  15. Les subtiles et facecieuses rencontres de I. B. disciple du genereux Verboquet, par luy pratiquées pendant son voyage, tant par mer que par terre. Le tout au contentement des plus Melancoliques
    [VERBOQUET] ANONYME

    Les subtiles et facecieuses rencontres de I. B. disciple du genereux Verboquet, par luy pratiquées pendant son voyage, tant par mer que par terre. Le tout au contentement des plus Melancoliques

    De l'imprimerie de Jean Martin • et de Jean de Bordeaux|à Paris 1630|7.50 x 15 cm|relié
    First edition, rare, of this collection of witticisms and funny stories published as a "supplement" to a reprint of the famous Les Délices, ou Discours joyeux et récréatifs by Verboquet, and since reprinted in its wake, "although it is probably not by the same author" according to Paul Lacroix (PL. Jacob, Enigmes et découvertes bibliographiques).
    Full cream parchment-covered cardboard Bradel binding, modern. Black sheep title-label. Foxing. A pale dampstain in the upper margin. A black stain in the lower margin of leaf 2.
    Very rare and amusing testimony to popular humor and the art of facetious anecdote.
    €500
  16. Londres
    Pierre-Jean GROSLEY

    Londres

    S. n.|à Lausanne 1774|10 x 17 cm|quatre volumes reliés
    Second edition with some parts in first edition, after the original edition of 1770, which contained only 3 volumes. A large folding map in volume I of London and the cities and suburbs of London and Westminster.
    Contemporary full marbled glazed calf bindings. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title labels. Some surface wear and tears with losses, but good overall condition, decorative.
    Travel account, departing from Boulogne and continuing to London with a detailed study of customs, habits and all aspects of society: the poor, jurisprudence, the clergy, the arts, the navy, horse racing, commerce 371pp. (...and particular chapters on melancholy, considered as a characteristic of...
    €600
  17. Vers Cyrène terre d'Apollon
    Louis BERTRAND

    Vers Cyrène terre d'Apollon

    A. Fayard & Cie|Paris 1935|19.50 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies with 10 on Japan. Fine full-margined copy.
    €70
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