First edition

Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 34x27cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, Grd. in-8 (19x27,2cm), 454pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated
Polychrome cardboard of the editor in full marine percaline.

650 €

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B. WINKLES & R. GARLAND

French cathedrals

Charles Tilt, London 1837, In-4 (26x32cm), 169pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a large vignette, and 50 boards on steel, drawn on the spot by Garland and engraved by Winkles.
Publisher's cardboard in full blue percaline.

200 €

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Louis CATAT

Voyage à Madagascar (1889-1890)

Librairie Hachette, Paris 1895, In-4 (24x31,5cm), 436pp., relié.

Edition abundantly illustrated with 167 woodcuts including 37 inset and 3 cards including one in color.
Binding in black half morocco with corners of time. Back with nerves adorned with 5 boxed florets. Golden title. Nets on the boards. Golden head. wrappers preserved and bound in. Copy not [...]

500 €

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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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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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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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Emile DUBOC

35 mois de campagne en Chine, au Tonkin. Courbet - Rivière (1882-1885)

Charavay, Paris 1886 (S.d), In-4 (24x33,3cm), 324pp., relié.

First edition, richly illustrated with 95 woodcuts in and inset by P. Marie and A. Brun.
Binding half shagreen red corners. Back to nerves adorned. Nets on the boards.

550 €

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