First edition

Emmanuel, Abbé DOMENECH

Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau Monde

Morizot, Paris 1862, Fort in-8 (18x27cm), 608pp., relié.

First french edition, illustrated with 40 color insets, representing panoramic views of American deserts, Indian antiques, Indian types and scenes of manners.
Binding in brown half morocco vintage flat percaline chagrined. Back with false nerves adorned with boxes cold and hot. Cold framing [...]

400 €

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Désiré PASQUET

Histoire politique et sociale du peuple américain

Les éditions traditionnelles, Paris 1924, 14,5x22,5cm, 2 volumes brochés.

First edition.
Back insolated as generally, small marginal tear with tiny gaps on the boards.
Book decorated with 78 illustrations and maps.

50 €

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William FAULKNER

Tandis que j'agonise

Gallimard, Paris 1934, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 210 copies numbered in Roman numerals on Alfa paper, only leading copies.
Preface by Valéry Larbaud.
Small foxing without gravity at the head of the first guard.
Nice copy.

450 €

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Albert TISSANDIER

Six mois aux Etats-Unis. Voyage d'un touriste dans l'Amérique du nord suivi d'une excursion à ...

G. Masson, Paris 1886 (S.d.), In-8 (16x24cm), 298pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 82 engravings including 25 full page, 8 plates inset on double page and 2 cards.
Binding half black sheepskin contemporary. Back with 4 nerves decorated with nets. Friction on the boards, on the edges and corners.

280 €

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Jules VERNE

Le superbe Orénoque

Hetzel, Paris 1898, Grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 411pp., relié.

VERNE Jules
Le Superbe Orénoque
[The Mighty Orinoco]
Hetzel, Paris 1898, 18,5 x 28 cm, publisher's binding
First illustrated edition by George Roux, completed with 20 plates; most are polychromes, but some are black and white or sepia. Catalogue AJ at end. [...]

550 €

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Frédéric BOUYER, Gaston RIOU

La Guyane française. Notes et souvenirs d'un voyage exécuté en 1862-1863

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1867, 26x35cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition illustrated with drawings by Riou, Rapine and Delahaye.
Binding half shagreen red back five nerves end decorated with five golden boxes decorated in their centers of golden florets, framing of cold nets on red cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of white moire silk with some [...]

200 €

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Jules VERNE

Michel Strogoff. De Moscou à Irkoutsk, suivi de un drame au Mexique

Hetzel, Paris 1895, Grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 370pp., relié.

New illustrated edition of many drawings by J. Ferat, as for other editions, and 8 full-text inserts.
Cartonnage editor said "To the portrait glued" signed Lenègre binder. The peculiarity of this cartonnage is that it is in fact the cardboard portrait for Helix Island whose red cartridges of [...]

1 200 €

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Jules VERNE

Bourse de voyage

Hetzel, Paris 1904, Grd. in-8 (18x27,5cm), 441pp., relié.

New edition. 74 illustration by Benett, including 13 photographs (Barbaspine, Saint Lucia ...), and 12 polychrome insets and a map of the West Indies.
"Au globe doré" typewriter cardboard, with the top plate signed Blancheland, all connected by Engel. Second flat type i, with red straight [...]

600 €

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