Author: DE PERRON, ANQUETIL
Title: Zend-Avesta Ouvrage de Zoroastre Tome Premier Premiere Partie Qui Comprend Introduction Au Zend-Avesta, Formee Principalement de la Relation Du Voyage Du Traducteur Aux Indes Orientales, Suivie Du Plan de L'Ouvrage & Un Appendix Sue Les Monnoyes & Poids de L'Inde, Sue Quelques Objects D'Histoire Naturelle & de Commerce, & Sur Les Manuscrits Orientaux Du Traducteur
Description: Paris, N. M. Tilliard. 1771, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, volume I only xxxvi [2] dxlii hardback contemporary full speckled calf gilt, simple gilt borders to boards, five raised bands with decorated compartments, and contrasting title label to spine, red edges, with five folding plates as called for, binding much worn with backstrip lifting and joints cracked, front free end-paper laid on to front paste-down, with the signature of Alexander Baum to half-title, armorial bookplate of Henryson Caird to front free end-paper, his signature at lower margin of title page, internally clean and sound apart from minor staining on final leaves to inner margin, binding copy and very rare, this volume with the travel details and Indian numismatic information etc, vol I only. Poor.

Keywords: travel