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Marien VADI

Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ou description generale des monumens antiques et ...

Chez l'Auteur, A Rome 1804, Pet. in-8 (10x17,5cm), XII 432pp. et (2) 433-883p., 2 volumes brochés.

New illustrated edition of a portrait of Pius VII at the frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 86 figures.
Publication brochures, in contemporary domed paper. Title labels. Back of volume I soiled. Various shortages of paper. p, 171 to 190, notebooks largely detached. Blue stamp on title page: Ecole [...]

250 €

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Andre SPARRMAN

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans ...

Chez Buisson, A Paris 1787, in 8 (12x20cm), iii-xxxi, 389pp. (1) et 366, (1) et (iv), 366, (5), 3 volumes reliés.

Original French edition published simultaneously with the edition in 4, from the same publisher. It is illustrated with a folded frontispiece, a large folding map of Cape Town and 15 plates, some of which are folding.
Binding in full Rooted brown contemporary sheepskin. Back with nerves [...]

1 800 €

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MAC GEOGHEGAN

Histoire de l'Irlande ancienne et moderne

Chez Antoine Boudet, A Paris 1758 - 1763, In-4 (19,5x25,5cm), xlviij (2) 488pp. (2) et lxxxiv, x, 376pp. et xj (1) 379-798p. (2), 3 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume piece in red morocco.

1 000 €

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Edward-Daniel CLARKE

Voyage en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie

Chez Fantin, A Paris 1812, In-8 (13x21cm), xviij, 559pp. (1) et (4) 500pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare
Binding in plain brown calf of time. Smooth back decorated with 4 quadrilobed irons and multiple wheels. title labels and tomaisson in red morocco. Frieze framing on the splat lined with a golden net. Inner roulette. Epidermures on the backs and boards. Part of tomaion of [...]

1 300 €

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John HAWKESWORTH & James COOK

Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa majesté britannique, pour faire des découvertes ...

Chez Saillant & Nyon & chez Panckouke, AParis 1774, In-4 (20x26,2cm), (4) xxxii, 388pp. et (6) 536pp. et (6) 395pp. et

First edition of this collection of travels, also published at the same time in the format in-4. This edition contains neither maps nor boards, but it could be added the atlas of the edition in-4. All trips contain tables (longitudes ...).
Bindings full sheepskin marbled vintage granite and [...]

2 500 €

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William COXE

Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. & augmenté d'un voyage en Norvège par Mr. P.H. ...

Chez Barde, Manget, A Genève 1786, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), x, 380pp. et (2) 404pp. et (6) 293pp. et (4) 303pp., 5 volumes reliés.

Original French edition published at the same time as an edition in 2 volumes in-4 at the same publisher, it is increased the trip to Norway Mallet. The first English edition was published in London in 1784. The illustration includes 12 maps and pamphlets (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Dannemarc), 4 [...]

800 €

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch- Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel - ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,5cm, une feuille rempliée.

Original map fully enhanced in color.

1 500 €

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Regni mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Novae Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,2cm, une feuille rempliée.

HOMANN Johann Baptist
Regni mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Floridae, Novae Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae
Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1720), 62 x 53.2cm, one leaf folded. First edition of this uncut map, copper engraved and heightened in colour of the time.
Some tiny foxing very [...]

1 200 €

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