GALERIE DE CHARTRES - GDC judiciaire - Mes GODY-BAUBAU, MAICHE, RIVIERE
74
-
Guérin, Léon. - The French Navigators.
See original version (French)
74
-
Guérin, Léon. - The French Navigators.
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
Guérin, Léon. - The French Navigators. Histoire des navigations, découvertes et colonisations françaises. Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, 1846. In-8 black-backed publisher's cloth with the first cover decorated with a gilt plaque on the theme of voyages: boats, three-masted ships, exotic animals and vegetation (snake, monkey, shellfish turtle, macaw, penguin, sawfish rostrum, etc.), weapons (spears, quivers, sabres, shields, etc.), nautical instruments (compass, spyglass, sundial, anchor, etc.), items of clothing (necklaces, breastplate, etc.), musical instruments (calebolos, etc.)....), musical instruments (calabash, resonator string instrument ...) with polychrome shields decorating the plate (Brittany, Savoy ...); on the second plate naval anchor and white arms with a blue reserve surrounded by a rope with 3 18th century figures; back decorated with maritime attributes (globe, cannon, anchor, helm wheel, boarding axe ...). Haarhaus plates, gilt edges, yellow endpapers - jaws very slightly damaged, faint foxing and spotting - xii, 552 pp, [1 f. table]. Illustrated with 12 plates h-t: 6 full-length portraits of navigators surmounted by their arms in colour and 6 maritime views, all by Rouargue Frères.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
Ref. : E0282 - 2
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like