First edition

Jean Levesque BURIGNY de

Histoire generale de Sicile

Chez Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1745, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (14) 511pp. et (4) 454pp. (10), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Bindings plain marbled plain vintage. Back with nerves adorned with boxed glans. Title pieces in brown morocco, and tomaison in red morocco. Friction. 2 blunt corners. Head of Volume I a little soft and fragile. Beautiful paper dominated by the guards.

1 000 €

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Richard LANDER & John LANDER

Journal d'une expédition entreprise dans le but d'explorer le cours et l'embouchure du Niger, ou ...

Paulin, Paris 1832, 13x20,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation.
Braid bindings in full cardboard green fir, smooth back partially discolored and adorned with golden threads, traces of friction on the bits, guards and contreplats of paper green water, corners blunt, yellow slices, binders of the time.
Illustrated [...]

650 €

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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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Washington IRVING

Voyage dans les prairies a l'ouest des Etats-Unis

Librairie de Fournier Jeune, Paris 1833, In-8 (12,5x21cm), 306pp., relié.

First edition, rare.
Binding full sheepskin binds vintage wine. Smooth back decorated with richly decorated boxes. Cold-baked boards of a large floral plate. Insolated back. Headdresses rubbed. 3 blunt corners. Fresh work overall despite some slight burns.

450 €

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Baron de BAYE

A travers quelques villes historiques de la Russie, souvenirs d'une mission

Lib. Nilsson, Paris 1901, 16,5x25,5cm, broché.

First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprint from the Revue de Geography of April and May 1901.
Illustrated brochure of 23 inset photographs.
Back and flat marginally discolored and insolated as generally, small punctures and angular tears on the boards, pleasant interior state.

50 €

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Sabin BERTHELOT

De la pêche sur la côte Occidentale d'Afrique

Béthune & Arthus Bertrand 1840, 302pp., relié.

First edition, very rare, it is often confused with the reissue at the same editor of 1860. A large folding map of North West Africa with fishing stations and projected fisheries.
Binding half shagreen black grained contemporary. Cold coffered back and gilded nets. Part of the headdress torn [...]

500 €

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J. J. PREVOST

L'Irlande au dix neuvième siècle

Mandeville [Léon Curmer], Paris 1845 (S.d), In-4 (22,5x28,5cm), 126pp. 62Pl., relié.

A magnificently illustrated first edition of 62 plates engraved on steel by Bartlett, including a frontispiece and an engraved title, all on strong vellum. Introduction by Baron Taylor. A map.
Binding in half red morocco with corners of shagreen about 1860 signed Amand. Back to jansenist [...]

500 €

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Frederick WHYMPER

Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe)

Hachette, Paris 1871, In-8 (16x24cm), 412pp., relié.

first edition, illustrated with 37 inset on wood and several in-text, as well as a map.
Binding with red half-chagrin signed Magnier. Back with false nerves decorated with irradiating caissons. boards of red grained percoline with cold frames. Gold slices. Frottements in caps and joints. Blunt [...]

400 €

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