voyage grèce turquie fait ordre de sonnini manoncourt charles nicolas sigisbert (2 résultats)

First Edition, text volumes only. in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt, extremities a little worn, foot of second volume spine chipped but otherwise a good copy. Text volumes only, in two volumes, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), I: pp. [iv], 460, [iv]; II: pp. [iv], 460, [4], lower outer blank corner of II, D3 torn, a little light foxing in both volumes, The scarce first edition of a popular travel journal by the French naturalist Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Mononcourt, mostly remembered for his contributions to Buffon?s Histoire naturelle, 1802-1803, in particular the volume devoted to reptiles. This is an attractive set of the text volumes only of his history of Greece and Turkey. A quarto atlas volume was published with the text but is often, as here, missing. ?L?honorable réception de mon Ouvrage sur l?Egypte a surpassé mes esperances. Ce n'était pas un travail dépourvu d'intérêt que celui d'une description de quelques parties de l'Asie et de l'ancienne Grèce, qui renfermât la connaissance de leur climat, de leur sol, de leurs productions, de leur histoire naturelle, de leur état actuel de dépérissement de leurs ressources, de la peinture des moeurs, des coutumes, du génie des peuples qui les habitent, qui offrît un rapprochement curieux entre leur situation de quelques siècles et celle de nos jours. Outre les Cyclades ou îles de l'Archipel, mes observations se porteront sur l'île de Candie, quelques parties de la Turquie dans l'Asie mineure, la Macédoine, la Morée ont été également le but de mes démarches comme seront ici l'objet de mes récits? (pp. 5-6). Quérard IX, La France Littéraire, p. 212; Graesse V, p. 439; Brunet V, 445.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1801 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 473 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 473 Charles Sigisbert Sonnini, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt.