COLLECTION OF TRAVELS. - Together 6 works in 12 volumes in-8 - Lot 310

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COLLECTION OF TRAVELS. - Together 6 works in 12 volumes in-8 - Lot 310
COLLECTION OF TRAVELS. - Together 6 works in 12 volumes in-8, blond speckled basane, double gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated, red title page, yellow edges speckled with red (Binding around 1800). This set comes from a collection in a nice uniform binding and includes the following works, titled and stamped on the spines: - Volumes XIV and XV: [ANBURY (Thomas)]. Voyages dans les parties intérieures de l'Amérique, pendant le cours de la dernière guerre. Paris, Briand, 1790. First French edition (cf. Sabin, n°1368). - volumes XVIII and XIX: SMITH. Voyage dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique, fait en 1784. Paris, Buisson, 1791. First French edition (cf. Sabin, n°85256). - volumes XX, XXI and XXII: BRISSOT DE WARVILLE. Nouveau voyage dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale; fait en 1788. Paris, Buisson, April 1791. First edition, decorated with a folding table (cf. Sabin, n°8035). - volume XXIII : BOSSU. Nouveaux voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale. Amsterdam, Changuion, 1777. Edition with 4 plates (cf. Sabin, n°6465). Facsimile plates. - volumes XLI and XLII: IRWIN (Eyles). Voyage à la mer Rouge, sur les côtes de l'Arabie, en Égypte, et dans les déserts de la Thébaide. Paris, Briand, 1792. - volumes XLIV and XLV : MAKINTOSH. Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa... Begun in 1777, & finished in 1781. London, and in Paris, Regnault, 1788. Missing the 2 maps. Each volume has a printed title, Collection de voyages, dated Paris, An 4e de la République. A pencil note indicates that the set comes from the library of the Count of Warren at the castle of Madon in the Loir-et-Cher, former home of Themines in 1789. Minor defects to the bindings, some foxing.
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