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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

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 low margin, and on the table.
Physical and human geography of Egypt, Syria, Arabia and India, customs and customs. The volume was published when Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition had just been launched. It evokes the mythical road followed by Alexander the Great, from Egypt to India, a route coveted by the French.



400 €

Réf : 63857

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