INDIA - MALDIVES - CEYLAN - "MAP OF THE COASTS OF HINDUSTAN from BOMBAY to GODAV…

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INDIA - MALDIVES - CEYLAN - "MAP OF THE COASTS OF HINDUSTAN from BOMBAY to GODAVERY and of the MALDIVES and CHAGOS ISLANDS, Drawn up by M. Daussy Ingenieur Hydrographe en chef d'aprés les travaux les plus recents [], au Dépôt général de la Marine". 1839. Engraved by Chassant. Colored. laid paper. Covered with the blue stamp of the Librairie de A. Delaporte. Margins. Folded in two. 94 x 72 cm. Condition A (good general condition).

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INDIA - MALDIVES - CEYLAN - "MAP OF THE COASTS OF HINDUSTAN from BOMBAY to GODAVERY and of the MALDIVES and CHAGOS ISLANDS, Drawn up by M. Daussy Ingenieur Hydrographe en chef d'aprés les travaux les plus recents [], au Dépôt général de la Marine". 1839. Engraved by Chassant. Colored. laid paper. Covered with the blue stamp of the Librairie de A. Delaporte. Margins. Folded in two. 94 x 72 cm. Condition A (good general condition).

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[RAYNAL (Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé). Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. La Haye, s.n. puis Gosse, 1774. 7 vol. in-8 of I. xij-595 (mal ch. 585) pp., portrait, frontispiece, folding map (detached) - II. xii-411 pp., frontispiece, folding map - III. xiii-586 pp., frontispiece, folding map - IV. xii-508 pp., frontispiece, folding map - V. xij-407 pp., frontispiece, folding map - VI. vi-375-[1] pp. frontispiece, folding map - VII. xi-430 pp. frontispiece, folding map Tan calf, decorated smooth spine, red marbled title and greef, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, red edges (period binding). Covers and corners worn, rubbed. 2 endpapers of last volume torn and missing, first few pages of last volume and several pages of volume 4 wet. New edition of this famous work, which was placed on the index as soon as it appeared. It is illustrated with 7 frontispieces by Eisen, 7 folding maps by Bonne (3 of which are repeated). The work was written by Abbé Raynal, with the collaboration of Diderot and d'Holbach for the philosophical part, Dutesta for information on trade and customs in the Indies, Pechmèja, Abbé Martin de Deleyre, d'Aranda and others. The work was a great success, and is divided into four main parts: the East Indies, South America, the West Indies (and the slave trade), North America, with a concluding section devoted to Europe and its colonies. The third edition, published in 1780, was condemned by the censors. The work took sides against slavery, denouncing its atrocities. Handwritten bookplates 19th c. Frédéric Houriet (?) and H. Fane (?).

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