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PREVOST d'Exiles, Antoine-François (1697-1763). Histoire Generale des Voyages. Paris: Claude Simon or his widow for Didot or his widow, 1746-1761 (Supplement: Amsterdam: Arkstée and Merkus, 1761).
Volumes I-XVII only (of 20, without the second and third supplements), 4° (257 x 196mm). Titles in red and black, volumes IV, VI-IX and XV-XVI with half-titles. One folding letterpress table, engraved portrait and 528 plates, plans and maps, 249 folding. (Vol.I: tear in final leaf; IV: tear to lower margin of Ccc2; VIII: small tear to the first folding map; X: small tear to one folding plate, a2 and A2 holed at lower margin; XI: 3S3 and 4 outer lower blank corner torn away; XII: small tear to first folding map, Oo4 lower outer blank corner torn away; XIII: one folding plate torn; XIV: paperfault in 3D3 with loss of a few characters; XV: one plate very slightly shaved; XVII: tear to Oo4.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, (upper joint of vol. XI split, slight damage to upper cover of vol. VII). FIRST EDITION. (17)
Volumes I-XVII only (of 20, without the second and third supplements), 4° (257 x 196mm). Titles in red and black, volumes IV, VI-IX and XV-XVI with half-titles. One folding letterpress table, engraved portrait and 528 plates, plans and maps, 249 folding. (Vol.I: tear in final leaf; IV: tear to lower margin of Ccc2; VIII: small tear to the first folding map; X: small tear to one folding plate, a2 and A2 holed at lower margin; XI: 3S3 and 4 outer lower blank corner torn away; XII: small tear to first folding map, Oo4 lower outer blank corner torn away; XIII: one folding plate torn; XIV: paperfault in 3D3 with loss of a few characters; XV: one plate very slightly shaved; XVII: tear to Oo4.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, (upper joint of vol. XI split, slight damage to upper cover of vol. VII). FIRST EDITION. (17)