118 - RAYNAL, BONNE, Rigobert.

RAYNAL, BONNE, Rigobert. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the Two Indies. Geneva: Jean-Leonard Pellet, 1780. 4 volumes of text and an atlas, in-4 (25 x 19.5 cm), title pp. V–XV, 1 pl., 741–(1); frontispiece, title, VIII–485–(1) pp.; pp. III–XV and 624 pp.; frontispiece, VIII–770–(1) pp. Atlas: 22 pp., 50 maps (1–49 with a 17bis), excluding statistical tables. Contemporary marbled fawn calf for the text, contemporary fawn calf for the Atlas, ribbed spine decorated with gilded floral panels, volume number labels, gilded fillet on the edges, red edges (slight wear to the binding, worn cap bands, a few rubbed corners, some discoloration, missing title labels with no loss of the cold-stamped text, a marginal tear with no loss on map no. 3, excluding pp. I and II of vol. 3 and I through IV of vol. 1, a few light foxing spots, missing the portrait). Deluxe edition of this work in its period binding. Third edition, definitive and expanded by Diderot compared to the original 1770 edition, in its rarest format (an in-8 edition was also published). With 3 superb black copperplate frontispieces, dated 1780, by Moreau the Younger and finely engraved by Simonet, De Launay, or Delignon (volumes I, II, and IV; the frontispiece for volume I is bound between pages XV and 1). The atlas consists of 22 pages of text, including a title page and a table of maps, as well as 50 black-engraved copperplate maps, numbered 1 through 49, with a plate 17 bis. Cohen, 854. Sabin, 68081.