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RAYNAL. Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemen…
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142
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RAYNAL. Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemen…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,000
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Description
RAYNAL. Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissements et du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Geneva, Jean-Léonard Pellet, 1780. 10 vols. in-8, and an Atlas in-4 [following: NECKER. Compte-rendu au Roi.] - Esprit et génie de M. l'abbé Reynal. Geneva, Jean Léonard, 1782. 1 vol. - Supplément. Neuchatel and Geneva, 1784. 1 vol. - Histoire philosophique et politique des Iles françoises dans les Indes occidentales. Lausanne, Heubach, 1784. 1 vol. - 13 vol. in-8, and an atlas in-4, marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, number B at foot of spine, spotted tr.
Each volume of text opens with a frontispiece (including 2 portraits).
The atlas is complete with portrait, 50 maps (including 17bis), and 23 tables (including 13 fold-outs).
"Esprit et génie de M. l'abbé Reynal": 2nd edition; the original edition, published in 1777, was censored.
Following the atlas: NECKER. Compte-rendu au Roi. Paris, Imprimerie du cabinet du roi, 1781. In-4, 116 pp, one folding table, 2 folding maps in colour: Traite et Gabelles. Genuine first edition. The portrait is missing.
From the library of Bouquot, surgeon and doctor of medicine, with his stamp repeated and his figure at the foot of the spines. Probably also the author of the few marginal annotations.
Minor defects to bindings, internally fresh. Stain on map 1, marginal wetness on maps 48 and 49.
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