Live auction - Lot 552
Live auction - Lot 552
[British Isles - Scotland]
Voyages aux montagnes d'Écosse et aux Isles Hébrides, de Scilly, d'Anglesey, &c. Traduits de l'anglais [...].
Geneva, P. Barde; Paris, Moutart, Mérigot the young, 1785
Hammer price: €
120
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: xv-[1]-375-[1], [8]-328 pp.; 10 pl. (errors in pagination, some margins dampstained).
Contemp. mottled calf, red title label "Voyages aux mont d'Ecosse", i.e. bound as not being part of a larger set (weak and partly broken hinges, covers warped, tr. of use).
Scotland part of the "Recueil de voyages au nord de l’Europe", rarely bound as a complete set. Incl. "Isles de Scilly" by William Borlase, "Description de l'isle d'Anglesey, au nord-ouest du Pays de Galles", "Relation d'un voyage de Milord Littelton au nord du Pays de Galles, & à l'isle d'Anglesey" and "Voyage en Écosse et aux isles Hébrides, fait en 1772" by Thomas Pennant, "Description de l'isle de Staffa" by Uno von Troil, "Description de l'isle de Saint-Kilda" by Kenneth Macaulay and "Écosse" by Samuel Johnson. With 1 folding map and 9 views, some engr. after Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.