Pierre Sonnerat | Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, Paris, 1782, 2 vols, marbled calf gilt

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Pierre Sonnerat

Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine. Paris: the author, 1782

2 volumes, 4to (252 x 196mm.), half-titles, list of subscribers, 140 engraved plates, each in two states (hand-coloured and plain), including a folding map, eighteenth century marbled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, blue endpapers, binding rubbed, spines chipped, corners bumped, joints cracked

LITERATURE:

Cordier, Sinica 2102; Hill, p. 578

PROVENANCE:

Jules Capron, of Ypres, armorial bookplate, his sale, Fr.-J. Olivier, Brussels, 7-9 April 1875, lot 803; Charles Chadenat, Paris, bookseller's label