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Live auction - Lot 1057
Live auction - Lot 1057
[Travels - Asia - Myanmar - Sri Lanka]
Description du Pégu et de l'isle de Ceylan [...]. Traduite de l'anglois & de l'allemand par L.L***.
Paris, Maradan, 1793
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: 32-354 pp. (occ. light toning and spotting).
Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. flat spine, marbled edges (few sm. stains on front board, front joint starting to split).
First French translation by L. Langlès of a collective travelogue (1st 1784) on Pegu (port city in Myanmar (Burma)) by the Scottish anatomist Hunter (1718-1783) and the isle of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Wolf.
Ref. Biogr. univ. XX:177-178. - Not in Chadenat or Brunet.
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