Author: Le Comte de Beauvoir
Title: Voyage Autour Du Monde
Description: Paris, E. Plon, 1875. Leather. A delightful French travel memoir by the Le Comte de Beauvoir about his travels through Australia, Asia, and across the Pacific, illustrated throughout. A fascinating travel memoir by Le Comte de Beauvoir detailing his travels to Australia, Java, Canton, China, and across the Pacific to San Francisco. Born in 1846 in Brussels to a noble family, Beauvoir left his family at the age of nineteen to embark on a trip around the world with his childhood friend the Duke of Penthievre. From the years 1865 to 1867, the pair travelled to Australia, in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), Siam (now Thailand), China, Japan and the United States.In the original French. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine maps (many of which are in colour and folding), and numerous in-text illustrations.Collated and complete.Rebound in half calf with a previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown and a previous owner's small ink signature to the front blank. Rebound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, joints, and extremities. Wear to the boards, and a small tear to the cloth on the front board. A previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown and a previous owner's small ink signature to the front blank. Internally, firmly bound. A few spots to the endpapers, but pages are otherwise bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: travel exploration voyage autour du monde beauvoir exploration french Not Stated
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Title: Voyage Autour Du Monde
Description: Paris, E. Plon, 1875. Leather. A delightful French travel memoir by the Le Comte de Beauvoir about his travels through Australia, Asia, and across the Pacific, illustrated throughout. A fascinating travel memoir by Le Comte de Beauvoir detailing his travels to Australia, Java, Canton, China, and across the Pacific to San Francisco. Born in 1846 in Brussels to a noble family, Beauvoir left his family at the age of nineteen to embark on a trip around the world with his childhood friend the Duke of Penthievre. From the years 1865 to 1867, the pair travelled to Australia, in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), Siam (now Thailand), China, Japan and the United States.In the original French. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine maps (many of which are in colour and folding), and numerous in-text illustrations.Collated and complete.Rebound in half calf with a previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown and a previous owner's small ink signature to the front blank. Rebound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, joints, and extremities. Wear to the boards, and a small tear to the cloth on the front board. A previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown and a previous owner's small ink signature to the front blank. Internally, firmly bound. A few spots to the endpapers, but pages are otherwise bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Keywords: travel exploration voyage autour du monde beauvoir exploration french Not Stated
Price: GBP 85.00 = appr. US$ 121.38 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 835J37
- Book number: 835J37
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