Antoine Claude Pasquin VALERY

Voyages historiques, littéraires et artistiques en Italie. Guide raisonné complet du voyageur et ...

Baudry & Aimé André, Paris 1831 - 1833, In-8 (13x21,5cm), 487pp. et 307pp. ; 443pp. et 359pp. ; 315pp., 5 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

First edition composed of the first 3 volumes of 1831 and volumes 4 and 5 published in 1833.
Binding ca 1850 in brown glazed half calf. Back with nerves adorned with series of fat and lean fillets and wheels in tail and head. Title and volume coins in black morocco.
Valery was unanimously [...]

450 €

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Joseph Bernard Marquis de CHABERT

Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les ...

De L'imprimerie royale, A Paris 1753, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) viij, 288pp. (10), relié.

First edition
Copy to the figure and arms of Louis XV.
Binding full brown marbled and glossy brown sheepskin.

4 500 €

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First edition

François Augier de MARIGNY

Histoire des Arabes sous le gouvernement des Califes

Chez la veuve Estienne & Desaint & Saillant & Jean-Thomas Herissant, A Paris 1750, In-12 (10x17cm), (4) liv (6) 460pp.

First edition
Binding full marbled and frozen calf. Smooth back decorated. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in red morocco. Upper joint of volume III partly narrowly split. Epidermures on the boards. Nice copy.

850 €

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Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, Grd. in-8 (19x27,2cm), 454pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated
Polychrome cardboard of the editor in full marine percaline.

580 €

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B. WINKLES & R. GARLAND

French cathedrals

Charles Tilt, London 1837, In-4 (26x32cm), 169pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a large vignette, and 50 boards on steel, drawn on the spot by Garland and engraved by Winkles.
Publisher's cardboard in full blue percaline.

180 €

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First edition

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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Paul-Emile VICTOR

Groenland 1948-1949

Arthaud, Paris & Grenoble 1951, 19,5x25,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Full copy of his illustrated jacket that includes a marginal tear and traces of creases on the first plate, nice interior state.
Illustrated book of 90 black and color photographs by Jean-Jacques Languepin, Marchel Ichac and Jacques Masson.
Autograph dedication [...]

90 €

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First edition

Gabriel SEIGNEUX DE CORREVON

Lettres sur la decouverte de l'ancienne ville d'Herculane, et de ses principales antiquités

A Yverdon 1770, x, 367pp. et (2) 384pp., relié.

First edition, very rare.
Bindings in full marbled brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title labels in red morocco, pieces of tomaison of brown sheepskin.

800 €

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