Travel

Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGUTE
Lettres de Milady Wortlay Montagute écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde
Chez Duchesne|à Paris 1764|10 x 17 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
French first edition, following the English first edition of 1763.
Copy with the arms of Anne-louis-Alexandre de Montmorency, (D'or à la croix de gueules cantonnée de seize alérions d'azur ordonnés 4 et 4) lieutenant-general of the king's armies, captain of the king's guards.
Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 5 alérions of the Montmorency family. Arms stamped on covers. Red morocco title label. Rubbing. Spine browned. 2 corners slightly bumped. Browning to margins of half-title and title page, small worming in margins. Handsome copy.
Lady Montagu was the wife of the English ambassador to Constantinople. The principal interest of...
€750
DE LA FLOTTE
Essais historiques sur l'Inde, précédés d'un journal de voyages et d'une description géographique de la côte de Coromandel
Chez Herissant|à Paris 1769|10 x 17 cm|relié
The rare first edition, illustrated with 3 figures (Brama, God of the Indians, View of a Pagoda Tower, and Man Making Snakes Dance).
Contemporary half sheep binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label. Headcaps worn. Upper joint largely split, lower joint split at head. Corners slightly bumped.
Departure in May 1757 aboard the Saint Luc, a ship intended to transport troops to India. Pages 3 to 21 concern Brazil and Rio de Janeiro where the author gives an unflattering description of the Portuguese (suspicious, violent, and not industrious). The author stops at Bourbon Island (pp. 25 to 27) for a month. Numerous passages on the war with the English. The author travels...
€500
Giovanni-Paolo MARANA
L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens
Chez Erasme Kinkius|à Cologne 1739|10 x 17 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition. This edition was successively expanded and 1684 is given as the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 attractive figures, of which 5 are folding (portrait of Mehmet; a view of Constantinople, of Perpignan, portraits of Richelieu, of the Knights of Malta; figures of Chinese, Tartars, Arabs...
Plates on Morocco, inhabitants of the Antilles etc.). Title pages in red and black. One often observes a significantly different number of plates from one edition to another, and according to dates.
Contemporary full brown speckled and glazed sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands richly ornamented and finely decorated. Red morocco title labels...
€1,300
Abbé Jérôme RICHARD
Description historique et critique de l'Italie, ou nouveaux mémoires sur l'état actuel de son gouvernement, des sciences, des arts, du commerce, de la population & de l'histoire naturelle
Chez François Des Ventes • Saillant|A Dijon • & à Paris 1766|10 x 17 cm|6 volumes reliés
First edition, illustrated with two folding maps of Italy.
Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 compartmentalized fleurons. Red morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on boards. Roulette on edges. Head caps of volumes I and IV partly torn; those of volumes V and VI worn. Tail caps of volumes I and IV worn. Upper joint of volume I partly cracked, of volume III at tail and of volume VI over the last three compartments at tail. Inverted leaves at end of table in volume IV. Despite this, satisfactory set with good general appearance.
The author does not merely provide an account of his personal journey to Italy, but aims to achieve a complete and most accurate...
€900
Alexis-Guillaume-Henri COLLIN DE BAR
Histoire de l'Inde ancienne et moderne, ou l'Indostan
Le Normant|Paris 1814|In-8|2 volumes reliés
The rare first edition, illustrated with a very fine and large folding color map on heavy paper, and a table of currencies, weights and measures.
Contemporary half speckled brown sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated with lyre and urn tools. Title and volume labels decorated in chocolate sheep. Sprinkled paper boards. Lacks to head. Two wormholes to head of volume 1. Small lacks to upper joint of volume 2. Surface wear to tail. Despite some defects, a fairly good copy.
Member of a family that had lived in India for nearly a century, Collin de Bar was French governor at Pondicherry, he was imprisoned for eight years during which he conceived this work. After a general description...
€830
Claude Emmanuel Lhuillier CHAPELLE, François Le Coigneux BACHAUMONT
Voyage de messieurs Bachaumont et La Chapelle
Chez Pierre de Coup|Amsterdam 1708|9.50 x 16 cm|relié
New edition, after the 1696 first edition.
Contemporary binding in full speckled brown calf. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons and a red morocco title label. Boards stamped with armorial device. Edges and headcaps decorated with gilt roulettes. All edges gilt. Worming to spine, tail headcap largely damaged (with loss), three wormholes on lower board, one corner bumped.
Some manuscript brackets in margins and a contemporary pen gift inscription at end of volume. Two library stamps on title page and first endpaper.
This gallant and playful travel narrative immortalized the two companions, as multiple editions were published over two...
€300
Jean-Louis SCHERER
Recherches historiques et geographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde
Chez Brunet|à Paris 1777|12.50 x 20.20 cm (In-8)|Copper engraving|relié

SCHERER Jean-Louis
Recherches historiques et geographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde
Chez Brunet, Paris 1777, in-8 (12,5 x 20,2 cm), xii (2 f.) 352 pp., contemporary sheep
The rare first edition with eight illustrations (Chinese coins and medals, Buddha) and a large folding map of Siberia and the river Lena.
Contemporary marbled sheep, spine in compartments, roulette to head and foot, brown morocco title-piece. Triple fillet frame. Small lack at head. Wormhole to foot of upper joint, two corners rubbed. Headpieces, joints, and corners scraped. A very good, fresh copy.
An important essay on the origins of the peoples of...
€1,500
Pietro & Achille PARBONI
Raccolta di N°60 vedute antiche e moderne della citta di Roma e sue vicinanze : con la giunta delle sale appartementi al Museo Pio Clementino
Presso Agapito Franzetti|in Roma [Rome] 1820 S.d.|15.50 x 22 cm|reliés
First edition illustrated with 159 etched figures depicting views of Rome, plus the engraved title, totaling 160. The engravings bear different signatures: Parboni, Franzetti, Olivieri, or bear none at all, and sometimes the dates 1824, 1827 and 1829. Printed on strong laid paper. Copies found in several libraries, notably that of Quebec, contain only 60 plates, but it is known that a collection of Parboni plates was published later in 1830 containing plates from 1824, with 100 figures, another with 50 plates in 1834; our copy could have been grangerized with plates from these editions. Some plates are numbered, but do not appear to have been bound in order. The plates have relatively...
€1,300
Antoine BIET
Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année MDCLII
Chez François Clouzier|à Paris 1664|17 x 24 cm|relié

BIET Antoine
Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année MDCLII
Chez François Clouzier, Paris 1664, in-4 (17 x 24 cm), (24) 432 pp.,contemporary calf
First edition.
Contemporary brown calf, spine in six compartments with blind-ruled compartments and gilt fleurons, remains of a manuscript title label. All edges speckled red, binding skillfully restored. Tear to lower margin of title skillfully restored, a few tiny stains.
The work is divided into three parts: the first relates the establishment of the colony and its journey to Cayenne, the second is a collection of observations on the 15...
€3,500
Michel LE FEVRE
Théâtre de la Turquie, où sont representées les choses les plus remarquables qui s'y passent aujourd'huy touchant les Moeurs, le Gouvernement, les Coûtumes & la Religion des Turcs, & de treize autres sortes de Nations qui habitent dans l'Empire Ottoman
Chez Jacques Le Febvre|à Paris 1688|18 x 25.50 cm|relié
Chez Jacques Le Febvre, in Paris 1688, in-4 (18 x 25.5 cm), (20) 558pp(11), bound

New Edition. The author wrote this work in Italian and published it in Milan in 1674, he did the translation himself.

Bound in full brown calf. Spine in decorated compartments. Title piece in brown morocco. Top spine end skillfully restored and redecorated. Title page mounted, as well as the first page of the foreword. Remnants of adhesive between the endpaper page and the title page. Good fresh paper, except on the pages of the epistle.

A beautiful copy.

The author, a Capuchin monk by the name of Justinien de Tours (he will have another pen name)...
€2,500
Edward CHAMBERLAYNE
L'état présent d'Angleterre
Chez Paul Marret|A Amsterdam 1688|9 x 16 cm|relié
New edition, rare. A frontispiece depicting the King of England
Armorial copy of Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen.
Full glazed blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with crowned cipher. Arms stamped on covers with triple gilt fillet frame. Headcaps worn. Joints cracked and split. Corners slightly bumped.
Chamberlayne's book first appeared in 1668 in London and was updated many times; it forms a sort of royal almanac and tourist guide to England, but infinitely more detailed; it became the reference manual on England in Europe as it indeed contains an incredible quantity of very diverse information, moreover established with the...
€900
P. J. MAIRAN
Lettres d'un missionnaire a Pekin, contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de supplément aux mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages de chinois ; par les missionnaires de Pekin
Chez Nyon|à Paris 1782|12 x 20 cm|relié
Second edition and first edition under this title, the work having been previously entitled: Lettres au R.P. Parennin... sur la Chine. Illustrated with one plate and one figure.
Full grained calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label. Split headcaps. Upper joint cracked and opened at tail and head. Loss of leather at head of spine, over 3 cm. Corners bumped. Missing marbled paper on first endpaper. A lack to title label.
Unlike the Mémoires sur la Chine, composed of letters from missionary fathers sent to France, this work brings together Mairan's letters addressed to Father Parrenin in China, in Beijing. Father Parrenin's responses were published in Recueils des...
€450
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer ARGENS
Lettres chinoises , ou correspondance philosophique , historique & critique , entre un Chinois Voyageur & ses correspondants à la Chine , en Perse & au Japon . Nouvelle édition augmentée de nouvelles lettres & de quantité de remarques. [Ensemble] Songes philosophiques, par l'auteur des lettres juives
Chez Pierre Paupie|à La Haye; [The Hague] • à Berlin 1755 - 1746|8 x 14.50 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition (third?) and first in 6 volumes. The first edition dates from 1746. Les Songes philosophiques are in first edition.
Contemporary full speckled brown calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Triple gilt fillet and star cornerpieces on boards. All edges red. Three head caps and three tail caps worn. A few corners very slightly bumped.
The Lettres chinoises, inaugurated by the same author as the Lettres juives have this typical Enlightenment design of comparing the customs and habits of several civilizations; the work takes up the scheme, always humorous, of the first work of this type: L'espion de la...
€900
Gilbert Saulnier DU VERDIER, Claude de VARENNES
Le Voyage de France, dressé pour la commodité des François et Estrangers. Avec une Description des Chemins pour aller et venir par tout le Monde. Très-nécessaire aux Voyageurs.
Chez Nicolas Le Gras|à Paris 1687|9 x 16.70 cm|relié
New edition of Claude de Varennes' Voyage de France, edited and expanded by du Verdier. Final edition of this travel guide which contains 100 additional pages.
Full brown glazed sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Upper cover split at foot. Rubbing, corners bumped and worn at edges. Good copy.
Textual reprint of Varennes' travel guide, but Du Verdier added an itinerary of French roads, towards the south, Brittany, Germany, Spain... departing from Paris. Besides this very useful addition, one also finds the value of foreign currencies, and more unexpectedly, a record of relics and treasures found at Saint-Denis. Of particular interest is the...
€450
Giovanni BOTERO
Relationi universali
Perli Bertani|in Venetia [Venice] 1671|16 x 22.80 cm|relié
New edition, after the original published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps by Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on grayed background. The work had numerous reprints in the 17th century.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Spine with raised bands, Jansenist style. Title in black ink.
Botero's universal geography is a means of evaluating the real power of all states. Botero wrote his Relazioni following his great political work "De la raison d'état" and cannot be understood except in its wake. While the work is a classic universal geography, with a description of all regions of the world then known in the first part, the other parts describe the world...
€1,500
Guillaume DOYEN
Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain et de la Beauce.
De l'Imprimerie de Deshayes • et chez Regnault|Chartres • & Paris 1786|13 x 20 cm|relié
First edition. Rare. Dedication to Monseigneur the Duke of Orléans, Philippe Égalité, Chartres was then under the same jurisdiction as Orléans.
Romantic binding in half blonde sheep. Smooth spines decorated with fleurons and gilt fillets. Corners very slightly bumped. A few pages of volume II very slightly stained.
Rare work not concerned solely, as its title might suggest, with history, but also with the geography of the city of Chartres, the origin of its main arteries. The author, lawyer and surveyor of the city, extensively documented himself in the archives and gathered everything that had been written of note since the origin of the city, anecdotes, events... The work...
€500
De SAINT-MAURICE DE SAINT-LEU
Coûtumes du bailliage de Senlis, et son ancien ressort ; comprenant Senlis, Beauvais, Compiègne, Pontoise, Chaumont, Magny, Beaumont, Chambly, & Creil
Chez Maurice Villery|à Paris 1703|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
New edition, published one year after the original compilation by Saint-Leu. Epistle to the Duke of Saint-Simon, the famous memorialist, in his capacity as governor of Senlis.
Contemporary full tanned sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands decorated with a blonde sheep title-label, gilt compartments and fleurons. Gilt roulette on the leading edges. Headcaps worn. Joints cracked along their entire length. Loss at foot of spine. Three corners slightly bumped.
Commentaries on the custom of Senlis (and the jurisdictions that depend on it: Beauvais, Compiègne, Pontoise, etc.), published for the first time in 1540; the present edition also groups together the commentaries of lawyer...
€550
Benoît de MAILLET
Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la mer, la formation de la terre, l'origine de l'homme, &c. Mis en ordre sur les mémoires de M. de Maillet. Par J. A.G***
Chez L'honoré fils|à Amsterdam 1748|11.50 x 19.50 cm|2 tomes reliés en un volume
First edition. Telliamed constitutes an anagram of Maillet, the author's name. The edition was published by J. Ant. Guers. The work is dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Skillful restorations, almost invisible to headcaps and bands. Good copy, very fresh.
In this fictional work, Maillet establishes important theories that he forged through his geological studies in Egypt and in Arabic countries, where he was also able to consult rare manuscripts of scientific theories. He believes that the earth is in fact a star and that it lives according to perpetual cycles that will lead it once...
€1,000
Josias SIMMLER, Johan Jakob LEU
Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste Politische Historie der Helvetisch und Eydgenössischen Sachen / nebst einer Nachricht von der Eydgenossen unter sich selbst und mit frömden Fürsten und Staaten gemachten Bündnussen Ursprung / Beschaffenheit und Haubt-Articuln; In dem Anderen aber eine Beschreibung der Eydgenossen Fridens-und Kriegs-Uebungen / samt der Beschaffenheit des Regiments wie der Eydgenössischen Republic insgemein / also jeder derselben XIII. und zugewandter Städten / und Orthen insbesonder / auch der Regierung deren allseitigen Unterthanen / enthalten; Erstlich mit sonderem Fleiss vor anderhalben Seculo zusamengetragen.?[On the Government of the Laudable Confederation: Two Books, the First Containing a Brief Political History of Helvetic and Confederate Affairs, together with an Account of the Origin, Nature and Main Articles of the Alliances Concluded among the Confederates Themselves and with Foreign Princes and States; the Second a Description of the Confederates' Peace and Wartime Practices, along with the Constitution of the Government both of the Confederate Republic in General and of Each of Its Thirteen Cantons and Associate Cities in Particular, as well as the Governance of Their Respective Subjects]
David Gessner|Zurich [Zurich] 1722|15 x 20 cm|relié
The rare first edition of this revised, commented and annotated edition by Johann Jakob Leu of Josias Simler's major work: "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). With a large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer after Christoph Weigel. A frontispiece by Fussli, often lacking elsewhere, has not been included with this copy.
Contemporary half vellum with corners. Smooth spine with title in black ink. Boards rubbed. Some marginal foxing. Map reinforced on verso with old paper. A good copy.
Hans Jakob Leu was called upon by the publisher David Gessner to revise Simler's edition: De republica helvetiorum. From 1720, Leu gathered a great quantity of information on the regiments of...
€800
Pierre-Augustin GUYS
Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs
Chez La veuve Duchesne|Paris 1783|12.50 x 19.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
Third edition illustrated with 10 plates hors-texte including a frontispiece by Dalbou after Hoüel, 5 plates hors-texte by Laurent after Favray and 4 folding plates hors-texte by Laurent after Massit. The first three volumes contain all the letters on Greece, the last contains other opuscules by the author: Essays on Tibullus's Elegies (followed by their translation), The Seasons and Light Poetry.
Numerous floral headpieces and tailpieces (flower baskets, carnations...).
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spines decorated with green morocco title and volume labels, small gilt floral fleurons, and gilt dentelle at tail. Triple gilt frames on boards. All edges...
€1,400
Pietro BIZZARRI
Rerum persicarum historia, Initia Gentis, Mores, instituta, resque gestas ad haec usque tempora complectens.Cui accesit Brevis ac vera Henrici Porsii de bello inter Murathem III. .Philippi Callimachi Experientis de bello Turcis. Et Appendix. Jacobus Geuderus.In ea Josephii Barbari Et Ambrosii Contareni Legatorum Reipub. Venetae Itineraria Persica: Johannes Thomae Minado I belli Turco-Persici historia
Typis Wechelianis apud Wechelianis • apud Claudium Marnium|Francofurti [Frankfurt am Main] • (Francfort) [Frankfurt am Main] 1601|16.50 x 32.50 cm|relié
Second edition copiously expanded with numerous texts on the Turks and Persians, following the first edition published in 1583. A rare edition, preferable to the first for its multiple additions. Printer's device on title page.
Bound in full marbled brown sheep, later 17th century. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Beige morocco title label. Upper joint split and open at head. A pale dampstain to the lower third of pages throughout the volume. Numerous leaves browned, unfortunately typical of German and Swiss paper from this period. Final leaf bearing the printer's device partly detached.
History of Persia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire up to 1581. This precious history is...
€1,800
Antonio de CAPMANY
Ordenanzas de las armadas navales de la corona de Aragon
En la imprenta real|Madrid 1787|17.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary full parchment binding. Smooth spine with pen-and-ink title faded at head. Lacking one third of the leather on upper board, also at edges. Without endpaper. Good freshness of paper.
Aragonese naval ordinances from the 14th century. In appendix, English naval ordinances and various documents relating to the Spanish navy, notably ordinances from the 16th century.
€950
BONNE
Carte du Paraguay et partie des pays adjacants
Chez Lattré|Bordeaux 1782|39 x 51 cm|une feuille
First edition.
Mp of the Paraguay, partly in color.
Faint angular dampstain to head.
€150
Henri MAUNDRELL
Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697
Chez Guillaume van Poolsum|à Utrecht 1705|9 x 15 cm|relié
Reprint of the rare French first edition published in 1704, illustrated with 9 figures including 5 folding plates of Mount Thabor, Baalbek, the cisterns of Solomon... A Parisian edition was also published in 1705. The English first edition dates from 1703 in Oxford.
Bound in full blonde sheep, root-marbled, later binding (c. 1790). Smooth spine decorated with 5 tools and repeated roulette. Headcap torn off. Two corners bumped.
Chaplain to the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Maundrell accomplished a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1696 accompanied by 14 coreligionists. The narrative follows the form of a daily journal. The travelers passed through Lebanon and Syria, and Maundrell...
€850
Jacques VILLOTTE
Voyages d'un missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jesus, en Turquie, en Perse, en Armenie, en Arabie & en Barbarie
Chez Jacques Vincent|à Paris 1730|9.50 x 16.80 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Contemporary full blonde marbled calf. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red shagreen title label renewed. Slight lack at head. Foot headcap rubbed. Corners bumped.
Travel account established by Father Nicolas Frizon from memoirs written by a missionary during his passage through Turkey toward China, Jacques Villotte. As sea travel was very dangerous, two routes were chosen, one through Muscovy, the other through Turkey, the Jesuits hoping to convert the peoples of Tartary. Narrative established in third person beginning with the Jesuit's three-week stay in Constantinople. Followed by an ample description of caravan travels. Considerations on the Persians...
€2,500
John SHEBBEARE
Le peuple instruit ; ou Les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont engagé la Nation, & l'emploi qu'ils ont fait de ses Escadres & de ses Armées, depuis le commencement des troubles sur l'Ohio, jusqu'à la perte de Minorque, considérés dans une Quatrième Lettre au Peuple d'Angleterre
S. n.|s. l. 1756|9 x 16.20 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Modern half cherry red morocco binding. Confounding pastiche of a Restoration binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with five blind tooled ornaments, gilt fillets; gilt roll at head and foot. Very fine copy.
Important document concerning the history of Canada and the United States, the work begins by examining the causes of the conflict between Great Britain and France concerning the Ohio territory. Indeed, in 1756, it was the beginning of the Seven Years' War, or Indian War, a war of conquest for legitimate occupation of territories; this war would spread from Virginia and Nova Scotia to the entire Great Lakes region of Canada, some Indians...
€700
James RENNELL
Description historique et géographique de l'Indostan, traduite de l'anglais par J.B. Bouscheseiche, sur la septième et dernière édition, à laquelle on a joint des Mélanges d'Histoire et de Statistique sur l'Inde, traduits par J. Castéra
De l'imprimerie de Poignée|à Paris 1800 - An VIII|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
Rare first French edition, translated by Bouscheseiche. Without the atlas containing 11 maps that is often found separately.
Later ca 1850 half marbled green calf binding; beautiful pastiche resembling a contemporary binding. Smooth spine decorated with Greek key pattern and four fleurons. Brown morocco title and volume labels. Marbled edges. A lack at the foot of volume 2, continuing onto the board. Handsome copy, very elegant, and quite fresh overall.
Hindostan extended from the Himalayas in the North to the Malabar and Coromandel peninsulas in the South, that is to say the major part of India at that time. James Rennel's study is almost exclusively geographical, and only one...
€900
Antoine-Etienne-Nicolas FANTIN-DESODOARDS
Révolutions de l'Inde pendant le dix-huitième siècle; ou mémoires de Typoo-Zaeb, sultan du Maissour
Chez George Bridel|à Paris 1796|12.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, rare.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Decorated smooth spines. Red morocco title labels and black morocco volume labels. Head caps worn. Title labels very rubbed, with lacks. Some corners bumped. Dampstaining to right margin at corner on the first ten pages of the first volume.
History, geography and customs of Hindustan, that is to say the Mogul empire which extended from the Himalayas in the north, to the peninsula of Malabar and Coromandel in the south, by the sultan of one of the provinces of this nation. Fantin-Desodoards assured, initially in company with Mirabeau, the translation and formatting for the edition. The work brings together a wealth of...
€550
Jean-François de BOURGOING
Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'etat actuel de cette monarchie
Chez Regnault|à Paris 1789|12 x 20 cm|relié
Second issue of the first edition with alternate title, illustrated with 3 folding maps (Spain, Madrid and the Bay of Cadiz) including the map of Spain hand-colored, and 9 plates of which 7 are folding.
Contemporary half brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with bold fillets. Title-label and volume label in fawn calf. Headcap of volume I partly worn, split on volume 2, a lack to volume 3; tail of volumes I and 2 partly split. Lower joint of volume 2 open at tail. Upper joint of volume 3 cracked at tail. Set heavily rubbed. Edges of volume I trimmed and those of other volumes bumped. 3 plates with tears. Dampstain at beginning of volume II.
The interest of this...
€700
Abraham STANYAN
Tableau historique et politique de la Suisse, où sont décrits sa situation, son état ancien & moderne, sa division en Cantons, les Diètes, & l'Union Helvétique, où l'on voit l'origine, la naissance, l'établissement, & les progrès de ses Républiques, les Moeurs, la politique, la Religion, & le Gouvernement de ses peuples. Avec un état de son commerce, de ses revenus, de sa milice, & un appendice contenant un détail de ses alliés.
Chez Lottin le jeune|Imprimé à Fribourg [Fribourg] • & se trouve à Paris 1766|10 x 16.50 cm|relié
First French edition, translated from English by Jacques Rebauld de la Chapelle (Barbier).
Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Black morocco title label. Restored headcaps. A thin crack to the lower joint at the head.
Stanyan resided in Switzerland from 1705 to 1714. Haller appreciated the unbiased exposition without prejudice or value judgments from its author, whose reading he recommends. It was seeing the paucity of works on Switzerland that prompted the author to take the trouble to write his own.
€400
LE GRAND D'AUSSY
Voyage d'Auvergne
Chez Eugène Onfroy|à Paris 1788|12 x 21 cm|relié
First edition, quite rare, illustrated with a panoramic view of the city of Clermont and the surrounding volcanoes.
Half midnight blue calf Restoration binding. Smooth spine with large romantic tooling lengthwise. Good copy. The last leaf of the table of contents is frayed at the margin.
The author having spent five months in Clermont Ferrand and visited Auvergne, proposed to make a travel account to the glory of an unknown and remarkable region for tourism; a large part of the work is a description of the city of Clermont-Ferrand. The rest of the book is devoted to the particularities of Auvergne, namely its volcanoes and springs. At the very end of the work, the author provides...
€700
Louis DOMAIRON
Recueil historique et chronologique de faits mémorables, pour servir à l'histoire générale de la marine, & à celle des découvertes
Chez Nyon, Onfroy|à Paris 1781|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition, after the first edition published in 1777.
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label, and green morocco volume label. Headcap of volume 2 worn. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rather handsome copy, in good condition.
The work rests on a simple postulate, the importance of the navy in human history. It brings together all the remarkable facts and discoveries from the dawn of time until 1781; the first volume ends in 1599, the second continues until the date of 1781; We have here in an adroit compilation the complete collection of voyages and discoveries made by navigators, but also battles and wars...
€500
Johann Michael VANSLEB, VANSLEBEN
Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672. & 1673
Chez Estienne Michallet|à Paris 1677|8.50 x 15.50 cm (In-12)|relié
First edition, rare and valuable.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt tooling. Binding with some surface wear. Losses to the joints at headcap and to the upper joint at tail. One corner rubbed.

€800
Guillaume BERTOUX
Anecdotes espagnoles et portugaises
Chez Vincent|à Paris 1773|10.50 x 17 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. 2 corners slightly bumped. Missing one marbled endpaper in volume I. Otherwise a handsome copy.
Chronological history of Spain and Portugal in the form of anecdotes, that is to say short articles. The Anecdotes are skillful compilations, not without critical spirit, and allow one to have at hand in a very practical manner the history of a nation.
€550
Pedro Roman MELENDEZ
Epilogo de Utrera: Sus grandezas, y hazañas gloriosas de sus hijos
Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada|En Sevilla, Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad [Seville] 1730|15 x 20 cm|relié
First edition. Large arms of Utrera on second leaf. Title in red and black with a floral frame.
Contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink (smudged). One tie in good condition, spine partly detached. Traces of glue to final endpaper. A good copy without significant faults, generally fresh.
A monograph on the town of Utrera in the south-west of Spain, not far from Seville (in the province of Andalusia). The town has a rich history, recorded events from which stretch back to the 13th century, when Alfonso X conquered Seville. Archeological digs have shown that the town was inhabited even before the Roman period.
20th century ex libris with an image of a 16th century hand press.
€1,400
John PERRY
Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie
Chez André Cailleau|à Paris 1718|9.50 x 16.50 cm|3 parties reliées en un volume
New French edition, quite rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Peter I and a large folding map. Reprint of the original French edition published in 1717 by Jean Boudot.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, ornamented. Head cap partly worn. Surface damage to boards. Rubbing to headcaps and edges.
This edition was provided by Hugony, following Peter I's voyage to France. Like the texts then available on Russia, this is a 17th-century account by an English engineer who was employed in Russia for many years; the strictly historical sections have been updated. This account is highly esteemed; it is the first to have given us accurate notions about...
€1,000
Jean Marie Joseph COUTELLE
Description de l'Egypte. Observations sur la topographie de la presqu'île de Sinaï, les moeurs, les usages, l'industrie, le commerce et la population des habitans
Imprimerie Impériale|Paris 1809|27 x 44 cm|relié
First edition, text extracted from the Description de l'Egypte, volume II, Modern State.
Modern cream parchment-paper full cloth Bradel binding. Black sheep title-label.
Coutelle and Rozière were commissioned by the French government to gather precise information on the Sinai; a modest caravan was formed, composed of interpreters and guides. The travel account is divided into 28 days. The second part contains commentary on Arab customs and practices, population, industry, commerce...
€350
Amédée JAUBERT
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert
Chez Pelicier • et Nepveu|à Paris 1821|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition, rare, illustrated with a very large folding map of the regions between Constantinople and Tehran, and 9 lithographs (by Aubry, Vernet...), and a frontispiece portrait of the Persian prince Albas Mirza.
Restoration period half light brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets and tools; roulette at foot. Marbled edges. Rubbing to boards, but handsome copy with perfectly fresh paper.
Amédé Jaubert, orientalist, was first taken by Napoleon to Egypt where he served as interpreter; in 1805 he was entrusted with an important diplomatic mission to Iran where he was to negotiate with the Shah to establish France's position in that region. During his journey, he...
€1,600
Abbé Laurent BORDELON
Le voyage forcé de Becafort hypocondriaque. Qui s'imagine être indispensablement obligé de dire ou d'écrire, & qui dit ou écrit en effet, sans aucun égard, tout ce qu'il pense des autres & de lui-même, sur quelque matière que ce soit
Chez Jean Musier|à Paris 1709|9 x 16 cm|relié
The rare first edition.
Modern cream parchment paper boards binding. Black sheep title label.
Like all satirical works by Abbé Bordelon, this is a curious and unclassifiable work in which a narrator travels in the company of Becafort, relating his thoughts, speeches and dialogues; the work teems with criticisms and reflections on social progress, women's independence, the occult sciences... It is a journey without any consideration for the journey itself, warns the narrator.
€400
William BULLOCK
Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays
Alexis Eymery|Paris 1824|12.50 x 20 cm|relié

BULLOCK William
Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d'un voyage dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, contenant des notions exactes et peu connues sur la situation physique, morale et politique de ce pays
Alexis Eymery, Paris 1824, in-8 (12,5 x 20m) and one atlas atlas in-8 landscape format(20 x 26,5 cm), (4) III, LXXII, 364 pp & (4) 370 pp., (2) and a large atlas in-8 landscape format, 11 pp., 2 volumes, publisher's binding
First French edition. The first English edition preceded it by a few months. The atlas is made up of a portrait of the author, 2 folding maps of Mexico, 12 lithographed plates (view of Mexico, Veracruz, Puebla, and sculptures), and 5...
€1,200
William GILPIN
Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les montagnes et les lacs du Cumberland et du Westmoreland. Traduit de l'anglais sur la troisième édition, par M. Guedon de Berchere
Chez Defer de Maisonneuve|à Paris 1789|12 x 19.30 cm|2 volumes reliés
French first edition, very rare. Illustrated with 28 plates including 2 containing two figures in Volume 2, 15 for volume I and 13 for volume II, as announced by the description of figures at the beginning of the work. Most of these plates are in aquatint and were drawn by the author. Some maps.
One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, nothing in French or English catalogues. The second French edition appeared in 1801.
Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine with romantic tooling along the length, uniformly sunned. Boards stamped with a large romantic plate in blind. Joints cracked. Institution Chapusot stamped at foot. Rubbing.
This journey to...
€600
Philippus FERRARIUS
Lexicon geographicum. In quo universi orbis Urbes, Provinciae, Regna, Maria, & Flumina recensentur
Apud Franciscum Muguet [François MUGUET]|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • (Paris) 1670|23.50 x 39 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition. Large printer's vignette depicting the adoration of the Magi. Epistle to Colbert with a headpiece by Chauveau and a large initial. Printed in two columns.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Title and volume number in black ink. Part of the upper headcap of volume I missing. Lower headcap of volume II split. Upper joint of volume I cracked across three compartments. Worming to spine of volume II, sometimes quite extensive. Wormholes to spines of both volumes. Paper often yellowed.
Vast geographical repertoire composed in dictionary form by Ferrarius, expanded and revised by Michel Antoine Baudrand (the scholarly editor). The work...
€850
Comte ESTEVE, Michel Ange LANCRET
Mémoire sur les finances de l'Egypte, depuis sa conquête par le Sultan selym 1er., jusqu'à celle du général en cher Bonaparte ; par M. le Comte Estève. Mémoire sur le système d'imposition territoriale et sur l'administration des provinces de l'Egypte, dans les dernières années du gouvernements des Mamlouks ; par feu Michel-Ange Lancret
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 43 cm|relié
First edition of these two memoirs extracted from the first fascicle, Modern State section, of the Description de l'Egypte.
Full cream parchment-style modern paper boards. Black sheep title-label. Wide-margined copy, uncut.
Tax system and property ownership in Egypt. Administration and internal and external commercial relations. Important memoirs for the history of Egypt, such a study having never been undertaken before, which is why the author necessarily concerns himself with the history and evolution of the country since Selim I.
€800
NOUET
Description de l'Egypte. Observations astronomiques faites en Egypte pendant les années VI, VII et VIII [1798, 1799, 1800] ; par M. Nouet, astronome de la commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|In Folio|relié
First edition of this memoir extracted from the first issue, Modern State section, of the Description of Egypt.

Full cream parchment-style modern boards. Black sheep title label. Large paper copy, uncut.
Considerations on the instruments and method used for astronomical observations and calculations. Survey of different calculations according to different geographical points.
€250
Jean-Baptiste Prosper JOLLOIS, Edme-François JOMARD
Description de l'Egypte. Antiquités. Description générale de Memphis et des pyramides par M. Jomard. Description de la Babylone d'Egypte par M. Du Bois-Aymé. Description d'Héliopolis par MM. Lancret et Du Bois-Aymé. Description des ruines de Sân (Tanis des Anciens) par M. Louis Cordier. Description des principales ruines situées dans la portion de l'ancien delta par MM. Jollois et Du Bois-Aymé
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1818|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First edition of these four memoirs extracted from Volume II of the 3rd installment (Antiquities Section) of the Description de l'Egypte. The memoirs are noted as chapters XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXIII, XXV (one should not be surprised that the chapters do not follow consecutively, as the apparently missing chapters are found in another volume of the third installment published at a different date). Each article is separated from another by a blank leaf.
Modern cream parchment paper boards. Black sheep title label. Uncut copy with full margins.
Very precise descriptions of monuments by eyewitnesses based on their notes, surveys and drawings taken in situ, numerous notes and historical...
€850
[VERBOQUET] ANONYME
Les subtiles et facecieuses rencontres de I. B. disciple du genereux Verboquet, par luy pratiquées pendant son voyage, tant par mer que par terre. Le tout au contentement des plus Melancoliques
De l'imprimerie de Jean Martin • et de Jean de Bordeaux|à Paris 1630|7.50 x 15 cm|relié
First edition, rare, of this collection of witticisms and funny stories published as a "supplement" to a reprint of the famous Les Délices, ou Discours joyeux et récréatifs by Verboquet, and since reprinted in its wake, "although it is probably not by the same author" according to Paul Lacroix (PL. Jacob, Enigmes et découvertes bibliographiques).
Full cream parchment-covered cardboard Bradel binding, modern. Black sheep title-label. Foxing. A pale dampstain in the upper margin. A black stain in the lower margin of leaf 2.
Very rare and amusing testimony to popular humor and the art of facetious anecdote.
€500
Edme-François JOMARD, DUBOIS-AYME
Description de l'Egypte. Observations sur les Arabes de l'Egypte moyenne. [Ensemble] Mémoire sur les tribus arabes des déserts de l'Egypte
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First editions of these two texts, extracted from the Description de l'Egypte, Modern State section, Volume 1, 2nd fascicle. Fine impression on strong rag paper.
Full modern cream parchment paper boards binding. Smooth spine with black sheep title label. Upper cover with black sheep title label. Uncut copy, full-margined.
These memoirs focus on contemporary Egypt, at the beginning of the 19th century, and more particularly on the life and customs of Arab tribes, nomadic or sedentary. One will find particularly significant and often amusing details about the habits, behavior and culture of the Arabs by two eyewitnesses.
€500
J. J. MARCEL
Description de l'Egypte. Etat moderne. Tome second.
Imprimerie Impériale|Paris 1812|26.50 x 43 cm|Un Vol. broché
This volume contains: Notice sur la conformation physique des égyptiens et des différentes races qui habitent en Egypte, suivie de quelques réflexions sur l'embaumement des momie; par M. le Baron de Larrey.
Mémoire sur la partie occidentale de la province de Bahyreh par M. Gratien le Père.
Notice sur la préparation des peaux en Egypte; par M. Boudet.
Mémoire sur le Meqyâs de l'île de Roudah et sur les inscriptions que renferme ce momument.
First edition.
Original blue wrappers. Fine condition, as the copy is as issued, with full margins, on laid paper. A tear to spine.
The notice on the physical conformations of the peoples of Egypt relates more to aesthetic...
€600
Edme-François JOMARD
Description de l'Egypte. Mémoire sur le lac de Moeris comparé au lac du Fayoum
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First edition, extracted from the first installment of the Description de l'Egypte, section: Antiquités, Mémoires.
Modern full cream parchment paper boards. Black sheep title-label with gilt title. Very fine condition, as the copy is as issued, full-margined, on laid paper.
Paper read at the Institut d'Egypte on October 8, 1800. The memoir brings together descriptions and observations of the region and Lake Fayoum: from this data and the writings of the Ancients, the author infers the situation of Lake Moeris and the functions of lakes among the ancient Egyptians. Numerous notes. Early bibliography at the end of the work.
€400
M. ROZIERE
Description de l'Egypte. Mémoire sur les vases Murrhins qu'on apportait jadis en Egypte, et sur ceux qui s'y fabriquaient
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First edition, extracted from the first installment of the Description de l'Egypte, section: Antiquities, Memoirs.
Bound in full modern cream parchment boards. Black sheep title-label with gilt title. Very fine condition, as the copy is as issued, full-margined, on laid paper.
The memoir consists of an archaeological study of the two types of murrhin vases (already well known to the Romans), those from Persia and local production. The author surveys the bibliographical data on the vases and their mineralogical nature.
€450
Remi RAIGE
Description de l'Egypte. Mémoire sur le zodiaque nominal et primitif des anciens
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First edition, extracted from the first installment of the Description de l'Egypte, section: Antiquités, Mémoires.
Modern full cream parchment paper boards. Black sheep title-label with gilt title. Very fine condition, as the copy is as issued, full-margined, on laid paper.
Linguistic work on the origins of the Egyptian language and more specifically on the Egyptian zodiac, with a comparison to Greek and Arabic. The Roman and Greek zodiac would have Egyptian origins.
€450
Pierre-Simon GIRARD
Description de l'Egypte. Mémoires sur le Nilomètre de l'île d'Eléphantine et les mesures égyptiennes, par M. P. S. Girard
Imprimerie Impériale|à Paris 1809|27 x 42.50 cm|relié
First edition, extracted from the first installment of the Description of Egypt, section: Antiquities, Memoirs. Numerous footnotes. A table representing the metric system of the Egyptians under the Ptolemies.
Full cream parchmented modern paper boards. Black sheep title-label with gilt title. Very fine condition, as the copy is as issued, with full margins, on laid paper.
The memoir traces the research of the nilometer on Elephantine Island, its description and function, as well as the importance of the discovery, since this nilometer, in addition to providing a history of Nile floods, was used to raise and measure the pyramids. The author infers from this a reflection on the...
€400
John CARR
L'été du nord, ou voyage autour de la Baltique par le Danemark, la suède, la Russie et partie de l'Allemagne dans l'année 1804
Chez Chaumerot|à Paris 1808|13 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition. Illustrated with 2 folding frontispieces representing a view of Cronenbourg castle and one of Copenhagen. Translated from English by Bertin. The original English edition dates from 1805.
Half brown shagreen cloth binding. Smooth spine with cold fillets and gilt titles. Fine copies.
Travel account in the northern countries of Europe which were then little known to the English. The author, sir John Carr (1772-1832) dwells on the customs and traditions of the natives and blends picturesque and historical anecdotes into his narrative.
€350
Pierre-Jean GROSLEY
Londres
S. n.|à Lausanne 1774|10 x 17 cm|quatre volumes reliés
Second edition with some parts in first edition, after the original edition of 1770, which contained only 3 volumes. A large folding map in volume I of London and the cities and suburbs of London and Westminster.
Contemporary full marbled glazed calf bindings. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title labels. Some surface wear and tears with losses, but good overall condition, decorative.
Travel account, departing from Boulogne and continuing to London with a detailed study of customs, habits and all aspects of society: the poor, jurisprudence, the clergy, the arts, the navy, horse racing, commerce 371pp. (...and particular chapters on melancholy, considered as a characteristic of...
€600
Thomas ARTUS
Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites. Nouvellement decouverte, concernant les moeurs, les coutumes & les ordonnances des habitans de cette isle, Comme aussi le Discours de Jacophile à Limne, avec quelques autres pièces curieuses
chez les héritiers de Herman Demen • [ François Foppens]|Cologne • [Bruxelles] [Brussels] 1724|10.6 x 17 cm|relié
Second edition, the First edition of 1605 is extremely rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a hermaphrodite, with the inscription 'Je ne suis ni male ni femelle...' ["I am neither male nor female..."].

Contemporary sheep binding, worn. Decorated spine with raised bands. Lacking the title label. Light dampstaining to margins at end of work.

Considered the first French anti-utopia, this journey of a Frenchman weary of his country's ills to an island inhabited by effeminate characters, made-up and devoted to festivities and pleasures, is a satire of the disorders of Henri III's court, himself represented by king Hermaphroditus, woman king or man queen. The work...
€700
William BOLTS
Etat civil, politique et commerçant du Bengale, ou histoire des conquêtes & de l'administration de la compagnie angloise dans ce pays. Pour servir de suite à l'histoire philosophique et politique
Chez Jean Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux.|à Maestricht [Maastricht] 1778|12.50 x 19.50 cm|deux tomes reliés en deux volumes
New edition after the first French (translated by Demeunier) in 1775. Illustrated with two frontispieces by Eisen (representing slaves under the English yoke and the English army in India) and a folding map of India.
Contemporary full speckled sheep bindings. Smooth spine decorated. Title label of volume I missing. Rubbing to spines. Joint of volume II opened at foot. Corners slightly bumped. Frontispiece frayed in lower margins. It appears, according to a comment contained in the work, that Bolt had himself written the article on Bengal in the Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes. The criticism present in the book indeed follows that of Raynal's book, namely a...
€450
Jullien MELLET
Voyages dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale [...][Journeys to the interior of Central America ...]
Chez Masson et fils.|Paris 1824|13 x 20 cm|relié
[Journeys to the interior of Central America: including those from Buenos Aires to Assumption by way of the Plata river and back, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso by way of the Mendoza plain and the town of Santiago de Chile, into the valleys and peaks of the Cordillera over a distance of almost 450 leagues, containing some of the richest mines in Chile, the return from Valparaiso and Santiago, the navigation of the Coquimbo to Lima, the capital of all Central America, the tortuous route from Lima to Guayaquil, and around Quito province, including to an ancient Inca city. Also including the voyage from the aforementioned capital to Santa Fe de Bogota by way of Cuença, Calil, and...
€1,000
Bryan EDOUARD
Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
Dentu|Paris 1801|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché

BRYAN Edouard
Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
Dentu, Paris 1801, 13,5 x 21,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition in French.
With the folding map at front present.
Small insignificant wear with tiny lacks to head and foot of one joint, a little light insignificant foxing.
A rare copy in its original wrappers.
€500
Morris BIRKBECK
Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique
L'huillier, Delaunay.|Paris 1819|12.7 x 20 cm|relié

BIRKBECK Morris
Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique
L'Huillier, Delaunay, Paris 1819, in-8 (11,5 x 19,5 cm), de xvi, 156 pp., contemporary sheep
First edition. Rare. Only one copy in the French Bibliothèque Nationale, nothing in French and British catalogues and only one copy in the British Library. The BNF copy has a map that is not present in this copy.
Contemporary half speckled sheep. Spine with fillets, red sheep title-piece. Rubbing. Inkspot to p. 92. Stamp to title: Société de lecture de Genève.
Birkbeck was an English gentleman farmer who emigrated to the...
€1,000
Pompeo SARNELLI
Guida de Forestieri per Napoli
presso Giuseppe Roselli|in Napoli [Naples] 1697|8.50 x 15.20 cm|relié
New edition, expanded and revised after the original of 1685. Published by Antonio Bulifon. Illustrated with a folding map of Naples, a frontispiece, and 49 figures hors texte, whose format is slightly smaller than the work and on a different, finer paper. Besides the churches, monuments, fountains and treasures, one sees a plate of Vesuvius and one of the port. All plates bear a caption ending with the name Antonio Bulifon. This excellent guide to Naples was published until the 19th century.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with handwritten title. A thin tear to the map.
This guide for foreigners (Forestieri) lists and describes all the monuments and remarkable...
€1,500

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Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites. Nouvellement decouverte, concernant les moeurs, les coutumes & les ordonnances des habitans de cette isle, Comme aussi le Discours de Jacophile à Limne, avec quelques autres pièces curieuses

Etat civil, politique et commerçant du Bengale, ou histoire des conquêtes & de l'administration de la compagnie angloise dans ce pays. Pour servir de suite à l'histoire philosophique et politique

Voyages dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale [...][Journeys to the interior of Central America ...]

Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique

Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique

Guida de Forestieri per Napoli