First edition

Heinrich HEINE

Reisebilder. Tableaux de voyages

Eugène Renduel, Paris 1834, In-8 (15x22,2cm), 384pp. et 416pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Edition originale. Cette édition, vendue à part, constituait les tomes II et III des oeuvres de Heine ainsi qu'en atteste les faux-titres. Traduction de l'Allemand de Henri Heine, lequel se fit aider de plusieurs collaborateurs, essentiellement Spechts, que Renduel avait chargé de traduite [...]

1 000 €

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Jules VERNE

La découverte de la terre

Hetzel, Paris 1878, Grd. in 8 (18x28cm), 464pp., relié.

Edition originale illustrée de 59 dessins par L. Bennet et P. Phillippoteaux, de 35 fac-similés de gravures anciennes, 20 cartes ou plans. Un Volume double, catalogue S.
Cartonnage d'éditeur en percaline brique dit à La sphère ptolémaïque (une des plus harmonieuses réussites parmi les [...]

600 €

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A. C. de la CARRIERES

Voyage aux pays aurifères. Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, ...

A. Courcier, Paris 1855, In-8 (16x24,2cm), 328pp., relié.

Original illustrated edition of 12 inserts in sepia on strong paper and many in-text figures.
Full-color cardboard editor with special plates.
Three chapters are devoted to California, to episodes of the gold rush, a description of San Franciso with a plate showing the fire of the city. We [...]

950 €

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PRISE DE NAVIRE

Observations pour le citoyen Vond'horen, armateur du corsaire Le Spartiate, de Bordeaux, intimé, ...

chez la veuve Lacourt et Faye., Bordeaux 1799, in-4 (18x24cm), 23pp. et 19pp., 2 parties brochées en un volume.

first editions of these two pieces.
The privateer Le Spartiate chased two American flag ships, the Charles and the Mary, the ships were brought back to port and the goods confiscated. The court of Bordeaux, complacent in the matter, declared of good catch the loading of the two ships, invoking [...]

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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John MEARES

Voyage de la Chine à la côte nord - ouest d'Amérique, faits dans les années 1788 et 1789, ...

Chez Buisson, A Paris An 3e (1794), In 8 (13,5x21cm), xxiv, 391pp. et (4) 386pp. et (4) 371pp. (1), 3 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation by Billecocq, after the English edition of 1790, without the atlas in 4 containing 28 plates that could be acquired separately.
Binding half shagreen burgundy late twentieth. Back to Jansenist nerves. 2 pieces of title and a piece of tomaison of burgundy [...]

900 €

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Signed book

Alain COLAS

Un tour du monde pour une victoire

Arthaud , Paris 1975, 15x20cm, broché.

New illustrated edition of color photographs.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Alain Colas to a friend named Remy.

80 €

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Jacques ARAGO

Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde

Hortet et Ozanne, Paris 1839, In-8 (15,5x23,5cm), 400pp. et 423pp. et 399pp. et 451pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Reworked edition and really new, it was described incorrectly as a new edition, it is ultimately a revised edition and better than those that preceded it, plus illustrations. 60 lithographic plates according to the drawings of Jacques Arago.
Binding half black shagreen vintage. Back with nerves [...]

1 200 €

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