Journal des voyages, dcouvertes et navigations modernes; ou archives gographiques du XIXe. sicle; contenant l'analyse des voyages nouveaux les plus remarquables... de tous les pays du monde... rdig par une Socit de Gographes et de Voyageurs, franais et trangers, et publi par MM Verneur et Frieville. Paris: Colnet, Arthus Bertrand, Delaunay, Brunot-Labbe, n.d. [1818-] 1829. 132 cahiers in 44 vols., 8o (202 x 123 mm). Half-titles, 40 maps, charts and plates (1 colored), 3 folding letterpress tables and 1 2-page facsimile. (Vols. 12-15 browned, a few plates with captions cropped.) Contemporary green quarter morocco gilt and marbled paper boards, yellow edges, vols. 1-35 with gilt ship emblems on spines, smooth spines ruled into six compartments. Evidently bound up from the original wrappered parts (fragments of wrappers occassionally visible in gutters, headcaps of vols. 10, 11, 12, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 30 slightly defective). Provenance: J.A. Dezauche (contemporary bookplates). Sold as a periodical not subject to return. (44)