[TRAVEL]. PRÉVOST (Antoine François). - Histoire générale de - Lot 143

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[TRAVEL]. PRÉVOST (Antoine François). - Histoire générale de - Lot 143
[TRAVEL]. PRÉVOST (Antoine François). - Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiés jusqu'à présent [...]. In Paris, Chez Didot, & La Haye, Chez Pierre de Hondt, 1746-1761 (16 vols.). -- Continuation of the General History of Travels [...]. Amsterdam: Arkstée and Merkus, 1761 (1 vol.). Continuation of the General History of Travel [...]. In Paris, Chez Rozet, 1768, & Paris, Chez Panckoucke, 1770 (2 vols.), & Chez Maradan, 1789 (1 vol.). Together 19 volumes in-4° (+1), title in morocco, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Good edition "of this true encyclopedia of travels [...], indispensable basis of any American library" (Chadenat, 1696). 580 engraved plates, some after COCHIN, including a portrait of the author in frontispiece. The present copy thus includes, including the frontispiece, 580 plates, some of them double or folded, including about 260 maps, plans, views (out of a total which varies according to the collections and can sometimes reach nearly 600). Volume XVI (of 1761) consists of an "Alphabetical table of the subjects contained in the XV volumes of the Histoire générale des voyages". From the library of Jacques Lacour-Gayet, with bookplate. Sabin, 65402.
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