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Leitch RITCHIE

La Russie - Voyage pittoresque de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou

Louis Janet, Paris s.d. (circa 1840), 13x20,5cm, relié.

Illustrated edition of 25 inset engravings.
Binding in half brown morocco from Russia, smooth back slightly lightened decorated with a golden decorative motif representing the roof of a Russian church, apple green cardboard plates decorated with cold stamped geometric patterns, guards and [...]

300 €

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Peter Simon PALLAS & Baron Jean de REUILLY

Description du Tibet

Chez Bossange, à Paris 1808, In-8 (13x20,5cm), xij, 89pp., relié.

Original, rare edition, translated by Baron Jean de Reuilly.
Binding in full red Russian leather of time.

1 200 €

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Joseph Toussaint REINAUD

Relation des voyages faits par les Arabes et les Persans dans l'Inde et à la Chine dans le IXe ...

Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1845, 9,5x15cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.

First edition of the French translation, corrections, additions and clarifications, established by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud in 1845, from the Arabic text printed in 1811 by Louis Langlès.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, preserved cover plates, binding signed Thomas Boichot.
Very [...]

1 000 €

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Gaston VUILLIER

La Tunisie

Alfred Mame & fils, Tours 1896, In-4 (26x35,5cm), 288pp., relié.

Original illustrated edition of 4 watercolors, 19 photographs and 70 woodcuts including 17 full pages.
Publisher's cardboard binding. Half calfskin cream. Paper boards with oriental and gold decor. The 2 upper corners blunt. Very beautiful copy, with immaculate white paper, on thick coated [...]

500 €

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Friedrich HORNEMANN

Voyage dans l'Afrique septentrionale, depuis le Caire jusqu'à Mourzouk

Dentu, Paris 1803, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xlviij, 236pp. (2) ; (4) 235-476p., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition of Langlès' translation from German, accompanied by 2 large folding maps on strong paper. Langlès is also responsible for the various notes and the thesis on the oases, composed according to the Arab authors.

Vintage half calf binding. Smooth decorated back. Golden [...]

650 €

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Abbé Charles César ROBIN

Nouveau voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale, en l'année 1781

Chez Moutard, A Philadelphie et se trouve à Paris 1782, In-8 (12x20cm), ix, 222pp., relié.

first edition, rare. Tables in fine of the roads and camps of the army of the Count of Rochambeau.
Binding in full, vintage porphyry brown calf. Smooth decorated back. title label in fawn morocco. Traces of friction. Very nice copy, very fresh.

1 300 €

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Charles LALLEMAND

Tunis et ses environs

Maison Quantin, Paris 1890, In-4 (24,5x31,5cm), 245pp., relié.

First edition of this beautifully illustrated work with a title-frontispiece in color, a back cover in color and 150 watercolors by Charles Lallemand engraved by Michelet. Print on large paper, strong vellum. The watercolors are said to have been made in situ by the author.
Beveled sky blue [...]

650 €

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Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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