Null [Bound in cipher]. [LACOMBE DE VRIGNY (De)], [LA HONTAN (Louis Armand de Lo…
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[Bound in cipher]. [LACOMBE DE VRIGNY (De)], [LA HONTAN (Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce de)]. Relation en forme de journal d'un voyage fait en Danemarc, a la suite de monsieur l'envoyé d'Angleterre... À Rotterdam, chez Abraham Acher, 1706. In-12, [3] f. (title, warning), pp. 3-619, [1] f. (errata), contemporary blond calf, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title, caissons edged with double gilt fillet, finial coat of arms, gilt fillet on edges and headpieces, interior roulette, red edges (spine faded, 2 corners dull, headpiece snagged, small worm tract at tail of one bit, freckles). Rare first edition of this work attributed to La Combe de Vrigny, Vernon's secretary, sent from England, or to Baron de La Hontan. It is illustrated with a copper-engraved fold-out map of the island of Huen, signed Bureau, after a drawing by Guillaume Blaeu. Provenance: Rohan-Soubise spine. Copy collated by the bookseller J. J. De Bure l'aîné in 1825. Then: Georges Richard de Soultrait (1822-1888), administrator of the Hospices de Lyon, then historian and archaeologist (engraved bookplate).

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[Bound in cipher]. [LACOMBE DE VRIGNY (De)], [LA HONTAN (Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce de)]. Relation en forme de journal d'un voyage fait en Danemarc, a la suite de monsieur l'envoyé d'Angleterre... À Rotterdam, chez Abraham Acher, 1706. In-12, [3] f. (title, warning), pp. 3-619, [1] f. (errata), contemporary blond calf, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title, caissons edged with double gilt fillet, finial coat of arms, gilt fillet on edges and headpieces, interior roulette, red edges (spine faded, 2 corners dull, headpiece snagged, small worm tract at tail of one bit, freckles). Rare first edition of this work attributed to La Combe de Vrigny, Vernon's secretary, sent from England, or to Baron de La Hontan. It is illustrated with a copper-engraved fold-out map of the island of Huen, signed Bureau, after a drawing by Guillaume Blaeu. Provenance: Rohan-Soubise spine. Copy collated by the bookseller J. J. De Bure l'aîné in 1825. Then: Georges Richard de Soultrait (1822-1888), administrator of the Hospices de Lyon, then historian and archaeologist (engraved bookplate).

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