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More imagesThe complete 12 volumes for 1re Annee of the series Bibliotheque Geographique et Instructive des Jeunes Gens ou Recueil de Voyages Interessants. Including Samuel Turner's Thibet and Byron's Autour du Monde. For a list of the contents see below.
BONTEKOU,G; BYRON, COMMODORE; CARVER,JONATHAN; BRYDONE,PAUL; MACKAY, W; TURNER, SAMUEL
Published by E. Gabriel Dufour Paris - 1805 1804
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Nouvelle Editions. Being volumes 1-12 of the first year of the series. Bound two volumes in one. Small 8vo (5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches), Contemporary full tan marbled calf, decorative gilt border to sides. Spine gilt with crimson lettering piece and green numbering piece, inner gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to edges of boards, all e…dges gilt. All the half-titles retained by the binder. Some polished surface loss to some of the boards. Overall very good, attractive & very clean internally. This charming series published "Pour l'instruction et l'amusement de la Jeunesse". The 12 volumes comprise the following works:Volumes 1-2: Voyage au Spitzberg.With two engraved plates; Voyage de Vasco de Gama aux Indes Oriental. Folding hand-coloured map; Voyage aux Indes Orientales par Guillaume Bontekou. Pages 226:230.Volumes 3-4: Relation d'un Voyage Autour du Monde Execute par le Commodore Byron. Folding map & Voyage Philippe Carteret. Engraved frontispiece. Pages 255:209:2.Volumes 5-6: Voyage de Jonathan Carver dans L'Amerique Septentrionale. Folding map (dusty on foremargin) & frontispiece.Volumes 7-8: Voyage de Paul Brydone en Sicile et Malte. Folding map & frontispiece. Pages xii:213:203.Volumes 9-10: W. Mackay. Relation d'un Naufrage sur la Cote d'Aracan dans les Indes Orientales. Frontispiece. Boehl. Voyage Alger Histoire du Naufrage de la Captivite de la Jeune Comtesse de Burke. & Voyage d'un Allemande au Lac Oneida; dans L'Amerique Septentrionale. Pages: 194:203.Volumes 11 & 12: Ambassade de M. Samuel Turner aupres du Teschou Lama, au Thibet et au Boutan, Folding engraved map of Asie by Herisson. Frontispiece.
