SONNERAT Pierre - Lot 31

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SONNERAT Pierre - Lot 31
SONNERAT Pierre Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781... Paris, l'Auteur, Froulé et al, 1782. 2 volumes in 2 vols. in-4°, contemporary basane, spine decorated with caissons, boards framed with a double gilt fillet, double gilt fillet on edges. Engraved headbands and tailpieces. Volume I: xv pp. of which faux-titre, title, address, extracts from the registers, table and foreword, [4] subscriber's pages, 317 pp, [1] p. errata; volume II: viii pp. of which faux-titre, title, table and foreword, 298 pp. 139 plates (of 140), poorly numbered, drawn by Sonnerat, 20 of which on double page. Complete with two large folding maps Théâtre de la guerre dans l'Inde sur la côte de Coromandel, 1770 and Indes et Chine by Guillaume de l'Isle, 1781. Missing plate 81 (plan of Canton). Guignard (?) stamp on 2nd blank leaf. Original edition. Spines sunned and worn, corners dulled, covers slightly scratched. Paper partly yellowed. A few small stains on some pages or plates. Fold-out maps worn or stained and formerly restored. As is.
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