Jean-François de LA HARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Chez Ledoux et Tenré, à Paris 1816, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 24 volumes reliés.

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 boards.
Bindings half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back nicely adorned with anchor and ship irons, wheels and ornaments. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Little lack in the tail of Volume I and at the head of [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Marie-Joseph Marquis de FORESTA

Lettres sur la Sicile, écrites pendant l'été de 1805 par le Marquis de Foresta

Chez Pillet aîné, à Paris 1821, In-8 (13x20cm), xxij (2) 299pp. et (4) 299pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in full sheepskin rooted and icy. Smooth backs decorated with 2 boxes to the grotesque

500 €

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François LE VAILLANT

Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance

Chez Les libraires associés, à La Haye 1791, In-8 (12x19,5cm), xx, 274pp. et (2) 287pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the first made in Paris in 1790. It is similarly illustrated with 12 boards including some unfolding and the famous board of the Hottentote apron.
Relliures full sheepskin marbled vintage. Smooth back decorated with 2 florets and 2 boxed urns, wheels. Title pieces in red [...]

800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Théophile GAUTIER

Manuscrit autographe du chapitre XI du Voyage d'Espagne "Boire de l'eau est une volupté que je ...

s.d. [circa 1843], 13,2x21,9cm ; 12,4x15,8cm ; 13,2x9,1cm ; 17,2x5,9cm, 4 feuillets.

Admirable set of four manuscript fragments of chapter XI of the Voyage d'Espagne which exposes behind the scenes of Gautier's writing which, guided by the romantic taste for the picturesque, relates his stays in Madrid and Ocaña and his passages by La Guardia and Tembleque [...]

5 000 €

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Hippolyte TAINE, Gustave DORE

Voyage aux Pyrénées

Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, Paris 1860, 15,5x23,3cm, relié.

New edition illustrated by Gustave Doré. Binding signed Vigneau and Pasquier.
Contemporary binding half red shagreen, back adorned with triple boxes and gilded florets, box and nets cold cold percaline boards, contreplats and guards of white percaline, all golden slices.
Two blunt corners, [...]

200 €

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First edition

Pierre François HENRY

Route de l'Inde, ou Description géographique de l'Égypte, la Syrie, l'Arabie, la Perse et l'Inde

Carteret & Dentu, Paris 1798, In-8 (12,5x20,2cm), viij, 457pp., relié.

Rare first edition, illustrated with a folding map.

Binding half green sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with nets. Golden title. Hook in headdress with missing. A bare corner of paper. Friction. Trace of pale wetness on the map and the first page of text on p. 69 in the [...]

400 €

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Antoine DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE

Voyage pittoresque de Paris, ou description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette grande ...

Chez de Bure, à Paris 1770, In 12 (10x17cm), x, 496pp. (6), relié.

Third augmented edition of this important artistic guide of the Paris of Louis XV. A title-frontispice engraved in colors by J. Robert & 5 inset plates including 2 unfolding by Choffart, Saint-Aubin. Four of them, signed Choffard (1730-1809), reproduce the illustrations of the previous edition [...]

450 €

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First edition

Pierre Charles LEVESQUE

Histoire de Russie

Chez Debure l'aîné, à Paris 1782, In-12 (10x17cm), xlviij, 442pp. et (4) 516pp. et (4) 570pp. et (4) 548pp. et (4) 565pp. (3), relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 large folding maps of Western Russia and Eastern Russia.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. back with ornate nerves, wheels in tails and heads. Title piece in red morocco, pieces of tomaison with black wax. A wormhole along the upper joint at the end of Volume [...]

1 500 €

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