China in print and on paper, including the Library of Bernard Hanotiau and the Floyd Sully Collection

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拍品 148
  • 148

Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine-François abbé

估價
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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描述

  • Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues. Paris: Chez Didot, 1746-1789
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 20 volumes, 4to (255 x 190mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait, 275 engraved maps, charts and plans (some folding), 307 engraved plates (some double-page or folding), text with woodcut head- and tailpieces, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled with raised bands and two morocco spine labels, all edges of text block tinted, marbled endpapers, occasional browning and foxing

出版

Hill (2004) 1391

拍品資料及來源

A significant collection, which includes accounts of many early voyages. "Particularly full accounts are given of the Dutch and the French voyages to the East Indies, voyages to China, and the British East India Company's voyages to India and Ceylon" (Hill).