La MOTTRAYE Aubry

Voyages en Europe, Asie et Afrique, ou l'on trouve une grande variété de recherches géographiques, historiques et politiques sur l'Italie, la Grèce, la Turquie, la Tartarie, Crimée, et Nogaye, la Circassie, la Suède, la Laponie, etc... avec des remarques instructives sur les moeurs, coutumes... des peuples et des païs ou l'auteur a voyagé... comme aussi des relations fidèles des évènements... A La Haye, chez T. Johnson et J. Van Duren, 1727. 2 vols. - Travels in English and French, in various provinces and places of ducal and royal Prussia, Russia, Poland, &c. Contenant un Traité de divers Ordres de chevalerie. Imprimé pour l'Auteur, Et se vend à La Haye, Adrien Moetjens; Londres, Round & Meighan; Dublin, Grierson & Bradley, 1732. 1 vol. Together 2 works in 3 volumes small in-folio, speckled calf, ornamented spines, old red title-piece and tomaison (mq three pieces, two of which need to be rebacked), antique bindings with some variants (lacks, splits, restorations and wear). Chadenat, n°105. - Tobler, p. 116. First French edition, translated from English, of Aubry de La Mottraye's (1674-1743) account of his travels in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The account by this French Protestant gentleman, exiled to London, is particularly interesting for our knowledge of Constantinople, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries. Superb engraved intaglio illustration containing, in the first edition, 2 frontispieces by Bernard Picart, a fleuron repeated on the titles, 47 plates out of text, some of them double or folding, engraved by William Hogarth, Parker, Nutting, R. Smith, etc., (ecclesiastical dignities, antiquities, pontifical and royal insignia, monuments, costumes, official parades, encampments, dwellings, mining operations, genre scenes) and 4 folding maps. First edition of Voyages en diverses provinces et places de la Prusse ducale et royale, de la Russie, de la Pologne, &c., with frontispiece and 8 plates (plate VII missing). The text of this work, printed on two columns, is in French and English.