Berenger, Jean Pierre (Editor)

Collection de tous les voyages faits autour du monde par les différent Nations de l'Europe - 10 VOLUMES

Paris, Poinçot, 1788. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Blanche Huleatt Carpenter. 10 volumes, full contemporary calf, triple line gilt border, gilt decorated spine, contrasting leather spine label, inside dentelles, marbled endapers. speckled edges, engraved frontispieces, folding world map bound in first volume. Bon état. plein cuir. Moderate wear and some joints tender and splitting, all holding, several spine labels missing or partially missing. Text is clean and sound, and text block is tight, folding map very good, each volume (except vol.10) contains a highly detailed engraved frontispiece of an active event related in the narrative. This set includes the extra 10th volume which deals with France's colonies, subtitled "Voyages intéressans dans différnentes colonies Françaises, Espagnoles, Anglaises, &c. Good.

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Book number: 004516

Catalogue: Travel and Voyages, Travel and Geography

Keywords: "World Travel" Explorers Voyageurs Drake Cavendish "de Noort de le Maire" 0 zxxk Dampier Cook Carteret Anson

Prime, E.D.G.

Around the World : Sketches of Travel Over Many Lands and Over May Seas

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1873. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. xvi, 455pp + 6pp publisher's list. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, frontispiece with tissue-guard. Light fraying to corners and spine ends, covers otherwise clean and gilt is very bright, cracking at front endpapers, contents age-toned, and clean, pencilled name on front endpaper. Very Good.

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Book number: 003998

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Travel and Voyages

Keywords: "World Travel"

Silliman, Benjamin

Remarks Made on a Short Tour Between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819

New Haven, S. Converse, 1824. Second Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 443pp. Full leather. Spine rebacked, some splitting to rear hinge but boards holding firmly, contents age-toned and occasionall foxed, endpapers soiled, binding is tight. The author's report of the tour with his obsevations on the geology of the region. Fair.

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Book number: 003216

Catalogue: Travel and Geography, Travel and Voyages, Science

Keywords: Geology "Connecticut River" Montreal