30th September CATALOGUE 231 Books & Graphics
30th September CATALOGUE 231 Books & Graphics
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Harteveld Rare <strong>Books</strong> Ltd., CH-1700 Fribourg 21<br />
legacy stamp on first fly ‘Guggisberg’, small bookseller ticket ‘W.<br />
Heffer & Sons Ltd - Cambridge’ on inside cover / legacy stamp + hw.<br />
dedication ‘His Grace the Duke of Somerset From the Editor’, both<br />
volumes bound in contemporary half-calf with corners, spine on 5<br />
bands, richly gold-tooled, red-morocco titlepieces, covers with red<br />
& blue marbled papers (caillouté-veiné), original spines mounted, a<br />
very fine(even beautiful) copy HRB 94506 CHF 5500.-<br />
1) Second edition. (one of 3 London editions published in 1799 which have<br />
all the same format, maps & plates). It was immediately recognized as<br />
a travel classic when first published in 1799. With the Appendix by the<br />
famous geographer Major Rennell. One of ‘the most important travelbooks<br />
of modern times’.<br />
2)(THE JOURNAL:) Rare First Edition. With engravings in the text and<br />
a large folding map with hand-coloured lines of the routes. RARE FIRST<br />
EDITION OF THE IMPORTANT POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED<br />
JOURNALS OF mUNGO PARK’S RETURN TO THE NIGER and with<br />
John Whishaw’s extensive biographical introduction. Until the publication<br />
of Park’s book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa,<br />
apart from the North-East region and coastal area. Park’s travels had an<br />
immediate success. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its<br />
scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on<br />
the social and domestic life of the Negroes, have remained of lasting value.<br />
Cox I p. 394.; PMM 253.<br />
29. PREVOST, Antoine François (1697-1763): Histoire générale<br />
des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages<br />
par Mer et par Terre, Qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les<br />
differentes Langues de toutes les Nations connues: contenant ce qu’il<br />
y a de plus remarquable, ...avec les moeurs de habitans... pour former<br />
un système complet d’Histoire & de Géographie moderne ... Enrichi<br />
de cartes géographiques et de figures. Ens. 44 volumes. Paris, Chez<br />
Didot, 1746-1753, in-8vo, frontispice portrait de ‘Prevost’, ouvrage<br />
illustré d’environ 400 cartes et planches gravées, titres en rouge et<br />
noir, qqs cartes dépl. avec début de déchirures, généralement très<br />
frais (quelques taches d’humidité marginales), ex-libris ms. ‘Sturler<br />
de Nyon’, tome I à XX reliure en basane d’époque, dos à cinq nerfs<br />
richement orné or, tranches rouges. Quelques petits frottements.<br />
Tome XXI à XLIV cartonnages muets gris d’attente, non rognés.<br />
HRB 98482 CHF 7500.-<br />
Exemplaire in-8vo du fameux ouvrage de l’abbé Prevost complet de<br />
ses magnifiques gravures. Plus connu pour ses romans (Manon Lescaut,<br />
Cleveland...), l’abbé Prévost est aussi à l’origine de la première grande