First edition

Pavel PIASSETSKY

Voyage à travers la Mongolie et la Chine

Hachette, Paris 1883, Grd. et fort in-8 (19x27,5cm), 563pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with 90 engravings after the sketches of the author and a map, including 61 inset and a color.
Binding in half shagreen red editor signed Magnier tail. False nerve decorated with richly decorated boxes. boards of red percaline. Friction in caps. 3 blunt corners. [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pham VAN KY

Frères de sang

Seuil, Paris 1947, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 55 nuimérotés copys on vellum snow, ours one of the 5 hors commerce, only leading copies.
Back slightly warped, marginally insolated boards.
Signed autograph of Pham Van Ky.

450 €

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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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First edition

Gerhard Friedrich MULLER

Voyages et découvertes faites par les Russes le long des côtes de la Mer Glaciale & sur l'Ocean ...

Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1766, In-12 (10,5x17cm), x (2) 388pp. et iv, 207pp. (25), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. Title piece and tomaison in red morocco. A wormhole at the head of Volume I. Traces of friction in caps and corners. Nice copy.

1 700 €

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First edition

William MAKINTOSH & John CAPPER

Voyages en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique, contenant la description des moeurs, coutumes, loix, ...

Chez Regnault, à Paris 1788, In-8 (12x20cm), xxiv, 486pp. et viij, 414pp., relié.

Second edition, after the first published in 1786, at the same publisher. It is illustrated with 3 folding cards on hard paper, one from Europe, a second from the middle of Asia, a third from the North Pole.
Binders full marbled vintage brown calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. [...]

550 €

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First edition

George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]

900 €

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First edition, Signed book

COLLECTIF

Album des types et costumes de tous les peuples du monde d'après des documents authentiques et les ...

Librairie générale, Paris 1869, 17,5x27cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition illustrated many plates inset.
Small traces of friction on the back and boards that also have some traces of discoloration in heads and tails.
Publisher's binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back slightly browned, headdresses somewhat frayed, framing of cold fillets on [...]

400 €

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First edition

MAISTRE DE LA TOUR

Histoire d'Ayder-Ali-Khan, ou nouveaux mémoires sur l'Inde

Chez Cailleau, à Paris 1783, In-12 (10x16,5cm), xij, 282pp. et (4) 201pp. (3), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a folding map in color.
Bindings full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Ornate smooth backs. Title and volume pieces in red morocco. Headdress of Volume 2 slightly frayed. Small lack at the head of the volume 1. Blunted corners and a little cropped.

1 200 €

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