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1024 - The French Traveler, or An Account of the Old and New Worlds, compiled by Abbé Delaporte. Third edition. Paris: L. Cellot, 1769–1791, 33 vols., in-12 (no title page; a few pinholes, foxing and browning; slight water stains, especially on the margins of a few folios; rare scorch marks and minor marginal tears; handwritten annotations in pencil on 1 endpaper of vol. I, 2 leaves pasted into vol. XIV). Marbled calf from the period, spine with gilded floral raised bands featuring title labels and volume numbers in brown or burgundy, red edges (fairly severe scuffing, some wear and scratches on the covers, cracked spine, some split joints, worn caps or even missing, 2 covers restored with putty). Volumes 1 through 34 (Vol. 29 incomplete) of this compilation of travel accounts, which totaled 42. Excludes the maps, which were sold separately.
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The French Traveler, or An Account of the Old and New Worlds, compiled by Abbé Delaporte. Third edition. Paris: L. Cellot, 1769–1791, 33 vols., in-12 (no title page; a few pinholes, foxing and browning; slight water stains, especially on the margins of a few folios; rare scorch marks and minor marginal tears; handwritten annotations in pencil on 1 endpaper of vol. I, 2 leaves pasted into vol. XIV). Marbled calf from the period, spine with gilded floral raised bands featuring title labels and volume numbers in brown or burgundy, red edges (fairly severe scuffing, some wear and scratches on the covers, cracked spine, some split joints, worn caps or even missing, 2 covers restored with putty). Volumes 1 through 34 (Vol. 29 incomplete) of this compilation of travel accounts, which totaled 42. Excludes the maps, which were sold separately.
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