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MELCHISDECH THEVENOT (EDITOR, 1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux, Paris: Jacques Langlois, chez Gaspard Meturas, Simon Piget, Emanuel Langlois, Thomas Jolly, & Louys Billaine, 1663-64. Parts I-II only (of 5) in one volume, (366 x 229mm.). Title of part one printed in red and black, with 17 engraved plates, including 14 double-page or folding, 5 maps, one folding and one double-page folding, illustrations, one full-page. (Final leaf of pt. one repaired affecting a few words of 5 lines of text, first title soiled and outer margin torn, double-page folding map with a few small holes at folds, possibly lacking a few leaves, marginal browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet V, 810; Sabin 95333: "no simple standard arrangement or collation can be given which will be found in all sets of Thèvenot", therefore sold not subject to return.
Relations de divers voyages curieux, Paris: Jacques Langlois, chez Gaspard Meturas, Simon Piget, Emanuel Langlois, Thomas Jolly, & Louys Billaine, 1663-64. Parts I-II only (of 5) in one volume, (366 x 229mm.). Title of part one printed in red and black, with 17 engraved plates, including 14 double-page or folding, 5 maps, one folding and one double-page folding, illustrations, one full-page. (Final leaf of pt. one repaired affecting a few words of 5 lines of text, first title soiled and outer margin torn, double-page folding map with a few small holes at folds, possibly lacking a few leaves, marginal browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet V, 810; Sabin 95333: "no simple standard arrangement or collation can be given which will be found in all sets of Thèvenot", therefore sold not subject to return.
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