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RAYNAL, BONNE, Rigobert.
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RAYNAL, BONNE, Rigobert.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
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Description
RAYNAL, BONNE, Rigobert.
A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the Two Indies.
Geneva: published by Jean-Léonard Pellet, 1780.
4 volumes of text and an atlas, quarto (25 x 19.5 cm), title pp. V–XV, 1 plate, 741–(1); frontispiece, title, VIII–485–(1) pp.; pp. III–XV and 624 pp.; frontispiece, VIII–770–(1) pp. Atlas: 22 pp., 50 maps (1 to 49 with a 17bis), excluding the statistical tables. Contemporary marbled fawn calf for the text, contemporary fawn calf for the Atlas, ribbed spine decorated with gilded floral panels, volume number labels, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (slight wear to the binding, cap bands worn away, a few rubbed corners, some discolouration, missing title labels but no loss of the cold-stamped text, a marginal tear with no loss on map no. 3, excluding pp. I and II of vol. 3 and I to IV of vol. 1, a few slight foxing spots, missing the portrait).
A deluxe edition of this work in its contemporary binding.
Third edition, final and expanded by Diderot compared with the original 1770 edition, in its rarest format (an in-8 edition was also published).
With 3 superb black copperplate frontispieces, dated 1780, by Moreau the Younger and finely engraved by Simonet, De Launay or Delignon (volumes I, II and IV; the frontispiece for volume I is bound between pages XV and 1).
The atlas comprises 22 pages of text, including a title page and a table of maps, as well as 50 black-engraved copperplate maps, numbered from 1 to 49, with a plate 17 bis.
Cohen, 854. Sabin, 68081.
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