First edition

Georges Marie DUMONT BUTEL

Histoire et commerce des colonies angloises, dans l'Amerique septentrionnale

Chez Le Breton & Desaint, A Londres & se vend à Paris 1755, In-12 (9,6x17cm), xxiv, 336pp., relié.

First edition, second issue with corrected faults, without errata p. xxiv.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label of beige morocco. Traces of friction. Very nice copy.
First French study on the American colonies and which precedes the war of [...]

800 €

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Michel Guillaume Saint Jean CREVECOEUR

Lettres d'un cultivateur américain, écrites à W. S. Ecuyer, depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'à 1781. ...

S.n., S.l. 1785, In-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) XXIV 422pp. et (6) 400pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition of the French translation published for the first time in Paris in 1784, in-8. The first edition was published in London, in English, in 1782. The French edition was, however, recast, corrected and translated by the author himself, who added a second volume, and even allowed himself [...]

400 €

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Jean BELL D'ANTERMONY & Lorenz LANGE

Voyages depuis St. Petersbourg en Russie, dans diverses contrées de l'Asie ; A Pékin, A Ispahan ...

Chez Robin, A Paris 1776, In-12 (9,8x17cm), xij, 407pp. et (4) 362pp., relié.

First edition

500 €

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COLLECTIF

Histoire des decouvertes faites par divers savans voyageurs dans plusieurs contrées de la Russie & ...

Chez J. P. Heubach, A Lausanne 1781 - 1787, In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 502pp. et (4) 469pp. et (2) 515pp. (4) et (2)

Collective first edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin.

900 €

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Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de VOLNEY

Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, Pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785

Chez Volland & Desenne, A Paris 1787, in-8 (12,5x19,7cm), (14) (2) 383pp. et (6p.) (2) 458pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, the rarest edition of this text which was reissued in 1787, 1799 and the nineteenth. The illustration consists of 5 folding plates, 2 cards (Egypt, Syria), and 3 beautiful folding panoramic plates (Palmyra, Balbeec ...), all on strong paper.
Binders full marbled and glazed [...]

1 300 €

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Maximilien MISSON

Nouveau voyage d'Italie

Chez Henry van Bulderen, à La Haye 1702, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (56) 339pp. (20) et (2) 356pp. (23) et (2) 414pp. (18), relié.

Mention fourth edition. Title pages in red and black.
Copy to arms of Armand Louis de Clerc de Juigné
Binders in full brown sheepskin contemporary.

1 200 €

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ANONYME

Recueil de 12 gouaches chinoises. Scènes de supplices.

s.d. (circa 1860), 9,5x12,5cm, relié.

Collection consisting of 12 Chinese gouaches of the nineteenth painted on silk laminated on paper by a blue silk ribbon. The gouaches are 6.5x10cm. The sky blue and the deep red are the colors that come back most often.
Binding in red silk on cardboard. Mute back. Laces. A snag on the top dish [...]

850 €

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ROBBE

Methode pour apprendre facilement la Geographie, contenant un abrégé de la sphère, et un traité ...

Chez Antoine Dezallier, AParis 1689, Fort in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (22) 592pp. (20) et (4) 414pp. ; (8) 140pp. (20), 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated with a frontispiece by Guérard, a figure and 25 folding cards engraved by De Fer.
Binders in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume pieces of brown sheepskin.

800 €

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