First edition

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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First edition

Edouard CHARTON & COLLECTIF

Le tour du monde. Nouveau journal des voyages. Premier semestre 1861 jusqu'au second semestre 1870, ...

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1861-1870 & 1872-1878, 22x31cm, 34 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in half tawny calf, back with five nerves adorned with gilded nets, title and year pieces of red and green morocco, plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, all gilded edges, bindings of the time.
Reds, the first volume (First half of 1861) [...]

1 700 €

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First edition

John BARROW

Histoire chronologique des voyages vers le pole arctique, entrepris pour découvrir un passage ...

Librairie de Gide fils, Paris 1819, In-8 (13,5x20,5cm), (4) 357pp. et (4) 336pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition
Bindings half glazed glossy havana contemporary. Smooth backs decorated with wheels and jewels. Pieces and tomato pieces of chocolate glazed veal. Headdress of the torn volume 1 (it is inside the volume). Split upper joint. Grip of volume 2 very narrowly split at the head [...]

450 €

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Jean-François LAHARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Chez Ledoux et Tenré, A Paris 1816, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 24 volumes reliés.

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 boards.
Bindings half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back nicely adorned with anchor and ship irons, wheels and ornaments. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Little lack in the tail of Volume I and at the head of [...]

1 800 €

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Fridtjof NANSEN

Vers le Pôle

Flammarion, Paris s.d. (1897), 15x22cm, relié.

Edition translated and abridged by Charles Ribot.
Binding of the publisher in burgundy half sheepskin crocodile wedges, smooth back adorned with the golden monogram of the publishing house, place and name of the editor at the tail, a few rubs on the back, turquoise percaline plates, guards [...]

100 €

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First edition, Signed book

Gustave DUVERNE

Sur les routes du monde

Seghers, Paris 1943, 11x16,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 200 on vellum Alfa paper, only great papers after 30 "pur-fil" paper.
Preface by Dieudonné Costes.
Insolated back also having small light spots.
Signed autograph of Gustave Duverne to Mr. Chollat: "... in memory of the Tour de France 1933, and in testimony [...]

100 €

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Jean-François LAHARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Ménard et Desenne, fils, Paris 1825, In-18 (10x17cm), 30 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of a frontispiece by Deveria and 60 figures of Adam engraved by various engravers, Fessard ...
Bindings half fawn sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 4 irons helmet and sword, 3 different wheels instead of nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison [...]

1 300 €

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First edition

Jules PAYER

L'expédition du Tegetthoff. Voyage de découvertes aux 80e - 83e degrés de latitude nord

Hachette, Paris 1878, In-8 (16x24cm), 381pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 68 woodcuts including 24 inset and 2 cards. Translation of Jules Gourdault.
Marine blue half-publisher binding signed Ch. Magnier in tail. Back with false nerves adorned with a series of casings dors and cold. Golden slices. Friction in caps and joints. A blunt [...]

180 €

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