Ventes live - Lot 1113
[History - World]
Histoire moderne des Chinois, des Japonnois, des Indiens, des Persans, des Turcs, des Russiens, &c. Pour servir de suite à l'histoire ancienne de M. Rollin.
Paris, Saillant & Nyon, Desaint, Widow Desaint, 1755-1778
€ 300 / 400
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Description du lot
30 vol., 12mo (light toning, pp. 177-184 of vol. 12 loose, corner title of vol. 27 torn with loss of some letters).
Contemp. mottled calf (sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spines with 5 bands (sl. rubbed, some sm. def. at heads & tails), red leather title and volume num. labels, red edges, marbl. endpapers. Very good, uniformly bound set.
Full set of 30 vol. on the history of China (vol. 1), Japan (2), India (3-6), the Persians (6), Arabs (7), Turks & Greeks (8-9), Africans (10-13), Russia (14-18), North & South America & the Pacific Islands (19-25), the inhabitants of the polar regions (26-29) and "des flibustiers" (adventurers, vol. 30).
Ref. Barbier II:817. - Sabin 44825. - Cordier (Japonica) 440. - Cordier (Sinica) I:52-53. - BnF.
Prov. de Gorlier (bookpl. in each vol.).