Lot 126
  • 126

La Roque, Jean de

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse. Amsterdam: Steenhouwer et Uytwerf, 1716
  • paper
12mo (161 x 98mm.), title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, folding map and 3 folding plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt

Provenance

L.M. Roehler, old signature

Literature

cf. Atabey 673 (Paris edition also published in 1716); Weber II, 468 (Amsterdam imprint only)

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

A FINE COPY. Atabey states that the first edition of this work was published in Paris, in the same year as this edition, though probably without inspecting a copy of this Amsterdam imprint. Weber notes only the Amsterdam imprint.