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AUGUST BORGET (1808-1877)
Fragments d'un voyage autour du Monde. Moulins: P.A. Desrossiers, [1850]. Oblong 4° (229 x 309mm). Tinted pictorial lithographic title, 12 tinted lithographic plates, each with text leaf facing. (Extremely faint water-stain to corner of first 5 plates & text leaves just touching image, plate 5 becoming loose.) Original publisher's glazed boards, title-page printed on upper cover (some light dust-soiling, extremities rubbed, foot of upper joint split but firm). Provenance: Mme. Borget (author's presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER. 'Very Rare album of handsome and romantic views' (Forbes). A pupil of Jean-Antoine Gudin, and a close friend of Honoré de Balzac, Borget set out on his round the world journey in 1836, landing first in New York before travelling across South America and the Pacific, reaching the coast of China in August 1838. That autumn William Prinsep remarked, when sketching with Borget in Macao, that he found the Frenchman's portfolio 'rich with scenes from South America, Sandwich Islands and China'. In July 1839 he visited Manila, then sailed for India via Singapore and the Straits of Malacca, returning to Paris in the summer of 1840. Complete copies (as here) are particularly rare, indeed Forbes states that 'This book appears to have been produced in a very limited edition and in a somewhat haphazard manner. Both the Kahn copy and another example offered by Hordern House... lack the letterpress descriptive sheet for Plate 10. Neither copy appears ever to have had this sheet, and it may be that it was never issued'. Borba de Moares I, 112 ('very rare and little known'); Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1766; cf. Howgego II, B46; Stravides Auguste Borget, 1999, pp.15-21.not in Sabin; not in Abbey.
Fragments d'un voyage autour du Monde. Moulins: P.A. Desrossiers, [1850]. Oblong 4° (229 x 309mm). Tinted pictorial lithographic title, 12 tinted lithographic plates, each with text leaf facing. (Extremely faint water-stain to corner of first 5 plates & text leaves just touching image, plate 5 becoming loose.) Original publisher's glazed boards, title-page printed on upper cover (some light dust-soiling, extremities rubbed, foot of upper joint split but firm). Provenance: Mme. Borget (author's presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER. 'Very Rare album of handsome and romantic views' (Forbes). A pupil of Jean-Antoine Gudin, and a close friend of Honoré de Balzac, Borget set out on his round the world journey in 1836, landing first in New York before travelling across South America and the Pacific, reaching the coast of China in August 1838. That autumn William Prinsep remarked, when sketching with Borget in Macao, that he found the Frenchman's portfolio 'rich with scenes from South America, Sandwich Islands and China'. In July 1839 he visited Manila, then sailed for India via Singapore and the Straits of Malacca, returning to Paris in the summer of 1840. Complete copies (as here) are particularly rare, indeed Forbes states that 'This book appears to have been produced in a very limited edition and in a somewhat haphazard manner. Both the Kahn copy and another example offered by Hordern House... lack the letterpress descriptive sheet for Plate 10. Neither copy appears ever to have had this sheet, and it may be that it was never issued'. Borba de Moares I, 112 ('very rare and little known'); Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1766; cf. Howgego II, B46; Stravides Auguste Borget, 1999, pp.15-21.not in Sabin; not in Abbey.