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J. Frederic Bernard (Publisher)
Recueil des Voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas, Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard, 1725. 5 volumes, 12° (159 x 93mm.). 39 engraved plates, maps and charts, most folding. (A few leaves and one or two plates with short tears, library stamps on titles, numbers in red stamped or written on lower margin of first leaves after titles, occasional light spotting, browning and dampstaining). Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed with losses to spines). Provenance: David Girard (bookplates); Vermont Historical Society (presentation plate on front endpapers). Second edition. "Edited by René-Auguste-Constantin de Renneville. The work is mainly a translation of Commelin's "Begin en Voortang ", and each volume is divided into two parts" (Sabin 68454).
With various other works of related interest in 17 vols. including Guillaume Thomas François Raynal's A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (London, 1757, 5 vols., 3rd edition) and Hugh Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia (Edinburgh, 1820, 3 vols.). (22)
Recueil des Voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas, Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard, 1725. 5 volumes, 12° (159 x 93mm.). 39 engraved plates, maps and charts, most folding. (A few leaves and one or two plates with short tears, library stamps on titles, numbers in red stamped or written on lower margin of first leaves after titles, occasional light spotting, browning and dampstaining). Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed with losses to spines). Provenance: David Girard (bookplates); Vermont Historical Society (presentation plate on front endpapers). Second edition. "Edited by René-Auguste-Constantin de Renneville. The work is mainly a translation of Commelin's "Begin en Voortang ", and each volume is divided into two parts" (Sabin 68454).
With various other works of related interest in 17 vols. including Guillaume Thomas François Raynal's A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (London, 1757, 5 vols., 3rd edition) and Hugh Murray's Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia (Edinburgh, 1820, 3 vols.). (22)
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