Elaborated travelogue by Antoine-François Prévost: 'Histoire generale des Voyages, nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. ...', completed with 27 copper engravings, volume III in French, Didot, Paris, 1747.
AUTHOR:
Antoine François Prévost (1697 - 1763), Prévost, also Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.
TITLE:
'Histoire générale des Voyages, ou Nouvelle Collection de toutes les Relations de Voyages par Mer et par Terre, qui ont été publiées […] Avec les mœurs et les usages des habitans, leur Religion, leur Gouvernement, leurs Arts et leurs Sciences, leur Commerce et leurs Manufactures ; pour former un système complet d’histoire et de géographie moderne […]'
PRINT:
Didot, Paris, 1747
DESCRIPTION:
Volume of the extensive travelogue by Antoine-François Prévost d'Exiles, Tome III, published by Didot, Paris, 1747. Volume 3 contains his travels to Africa, especially west Africa with Guinea. The book contains several views and maps of Guinea and Western Europe, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean with adjacent areas.
COVER:
- leather binding of the time
- blind embossed
- gild edging spine with title
- red edging
SIZE:
about h 26,4 cm x w 21,2 cm x d 5,8 cm
ILLUSTRATION:
- 9 full-paged copper engravings
- 13 double-paged copper engravings
- 5 folded copper engravings
- exlibris
COLLATION:
- 2 blank leaves
- 1 title leaf
- 3 leaves foreword
- 322 leaves content (numbered pages 1-644)
- 2 leaves index
- 5 maps
- 1 leaf hints for the bookbinder
- 2 blank leaves
- this volume is complete
CONDITION:
- in good condition
COVER:
- slight scuffing
- some worm holes
PAPER:
- good paper quality
- slight age toning and stains, first papers with more toning at the margins
