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JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR DUMONT D'URVILLE (1790-1842, EDITOR)
Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde Resumé général des voyages de découvertes... Publié sous la direction de M. Dumont d'Urville. Paris: L.Tenré and Henri Dupuy, 1834-1835. 2 volumes, 4° (275 x 185mm.). Half-titles, titles with wood-engraved vignettes. 3 engraved sheets of portraits, 274 engraved plates, 3 folding engraved maps, occasional wood-engraved illustrations. (Some spotting.) Contemporary French blue morocco-backed marbled-paper covered boards, titled in gilt on spines (joints weak, lower joints vol I slightly split, some scuffing).
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R.S.Fox (bookplate).
A useful resumé of the voyages of discovery made in the Pacific, India and Asia, from Magellan up until the early-19th century. The majority, if not all, of the plates are reduced copies of images that are published elsewhere. Spence 395. (2)
Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde Resumé général des voyages de découvertes... Publié sous la direction de M. Dumont d'Urville. Paris: L.Tenré and Henri Dupuy, 1834-1835. 2 volumes, 4° (275 x 185mm.). Half-titles, titles with wood-engraved vignettes. 3 engraved sheets of portraits, 274 engraved plates, 3 folding engraved maps, occasional wood-engraved illustrations. (Some spotting.) Contemporary French blue morocco-backed marbled-paper covered boards, titled in gilt on spines (joints weak, lower joints vol I slightly split, some scuffing).
PROVENANCE:
R.S.Fox (bookplate).
A useful resumé of the voyages of discovery made in the Pacific, India and Asia, from Magellan up until the early-19th century. The majority, if not all, of the plates are reduced copies of images that are published elsewhere. Spence 395. (2)
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