1604 - 1680 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- All vols. w. library stamp on title-p. Bindings partly trifle duststained.
- Both vols. owner's entry on first free endpaper and title-p.; sl. foxed; first lvs. of vol. 1 waterst. in blank margin. Spine-ends sl. worn.
= Sabin 42763; Howes L574. Charles Lyell was a British geologist. He visited the United States on two occasions.
- All vols. w. library (blind)stamps on title-p.; occas. (sl.) foxed (steelengr. title and plates worse). Vol.1 and 3 backstrip loose; vol.2 joints splitting; all vols. boardedges worn.
= Alston 9232; Hill 1477; Cox 1752.
- Partly sl. foxed, otherwise a fine and attractively bound copy.
= Chadenat I, 936: "Ouvrage curieux contenant des renseignements très intéressants sur les Aborigènes Américains."
- Lacks the Aztec plate; partly sl. foxed (incl. maps). Otherwise a good copy.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.
= l'Univers IV, 2. Sabin 73516. Part of the series L'univers. Histoire et description de tout les peuples.
AND 2 others from the same series, both unif. bound w. the preceding: F. DENIS, Brésil/ M.C. FAMIN, Colombie et Guyanes (2 parts in 1 vol., 1837) and J.A.F. ARTAUD-DE MONTOR, Italie/ E.A. DE LA SALLE, Sicile (2 parts in 1 vol., 1837).
- Foot of spine trifle rubbed. A fine copy.
= First publ. London, 1783. Sheffield's response to Pitt's proposal to relax the navigation laws against the new United States of America. "Pointed out superciliously the helpless position of American commerce, and thus influenced the shaping of England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might." (Howes, Usiana). Sabin 32638; Kress B.1719; cf. Howes H616 and Goldsmiths' 12622.
- Fine copy.
= Very rare work, written by a "négociant" on the basis of his experiences in trading with the Antilles and suggesting improvements to trading practices in i.a. St. Domingo and Guyana (i.a. improving condition of the local roads and waterways). Weuves also discusses various issues concerning slavery and slaves from a racist point of view (i.a. on the in his opinion mistaken decision to allow slaves to be transferred to France, thus causing unwanted "mixing of French blood").
- Without vols. 4 and 6.
AND 2 others, i.a. A. CHAMPDOR, Les Ruines de Palmyre (Paris, 1953, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- First free endpaper loose. Upper joint splitting. Contents fine.
= Fictional travel account (no Danish original exists). Cat. NHSM I, 233; Howgego, F36, p.380. An imitation of Swifts Gullivers Travels, first printed in Paris, 1729. Gove, p.276 (quoting Goulding, Swift en France (...): "Les Voyages de Glantzby sont vite condamnés, en partie parce qu'elles suivent de près la publication de Gulliver comme la faible copie d'un grand original, copie cependant loin d'âtre indigne de toute attention. puisqu'elle renferme des maximes solides et louables."
- Sl. foxed. = Tiele 8.
- Without the 1st vol.; 2 plates doubled; 1 plate loose. Binding worn and dam.
= Cf. Cordier, Indosinica IV, p.2419; cf. Atabey 1200; Cox I, p.275 (other eds.): "(...) we discover in his writings a greater compass of thought and a more masterly turn in his observations, than in almost any other book of the kind (...)". Rare.
= Cf. Phillips 3554 (ed. 1850).
AND 2 others, i.a. C.V. MONIN and A. VUILLEMIN, Atlas de Géographie Ancienne et Moderne à l'usage des Collèges et Maison d'Education (Paris, n.d., 42 steelengr. maps w. handcol. borders, modern boards, folio).
- One map cut nearly entirely along horizontal fold; 2 maps dam. in intersection of folds (1x w. closed tear in lower margin); 3 maps sl. (water)stained in lower (mostly blank) margin; a few maps sl. (glue)stained along middle fold; hinges weak. Binding worn/ dam.
= Phillips 698.
- Some foxed spots. Covers trifle soiled.
= This is not the 2 volume set with the same title, publisher and year of publication.
WITH the original fold. silkscreen and offset poster issued with the publication.
- Contents fine. Poor binding w. dam. spine.
= Major work on the nobility of Liège, composed by Jacques de Hemricourt (1333-1403) in the 14th century, and covering the years 1102-1398. Brunet III, 94: "edition (...) dont il n'a été mis qu'un très-petit nombre d'exemplaires dans le commerce". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXVII.





































