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RIGGS (Arthur Stanley).
France from sea to sea.
New York, McBride &Co,1925 ; in-8 pleine percaline éditeur noire, décor or et rouge au 1er plat,t itre doré au dos; 4ff.,VIIIpp., 1f., 394pp.
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30 illustrations photographiques H.T. Livre en anglais. ( CO1)
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Livres Anciens N. Rousseau
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3 book(s) with the same title
FRANCE FROM SEA TO SEA
McBride, Nast & Co.. 1913. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 315 pages. Photo-gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photo-gravures en noir et blanc hors texte. Dos effacé. Annotations en page de garde (ex-dono).. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
From the Golden Sands of Picardy to the Historic Paris and the Siren of the Seine. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
The Sea-Coasts of France, from Calais to Bayone. Described in Fifteen Large Charts. Surveyed and Printed by the order of the French King. From the Original, done at Paris, and the Remarks Explained in English, and Published for the Use of His Majesty'...
London, Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page on Tower Hall, no date (c. 1715). Folio. 53X35 cm. Cont. hcalf with marbled boards. Rebacked and recornered in old style with raised bands. Engraved typographical titlepage with a large engraved vignette showing the English King's Coat of Arms. With all 15 double-page engraved sea-charts (numbered (1)-(15) in lower right corners). Neat repairs to inner margins of free endpapers and titlepage. Some browning to charts. Chart 5 (45x75,5 cm) having the right margin shaved reaching the printed frame.
Second edition of this scarce ""Atlas Maritime"". According to Shirley it was first published by Richard Mount and Thomas Page in 1701 and re-issued with undated title (as this) in ab. 1715, but with the charts unchanged and a new engraved titlepage. A third issue came out in 1737 with a dated title. The fine charts are copied from Pieter Mortier's famous ""Neptune Francois"" (1693-1702) and reduzed in size.""The charts in this early Mount & Page atlas ""The Sea-Coasts of France"" are re-engravings, reduzed in size, from the charts in the French Neptune of 1693. The charts may also be found in the 1702 edition of Mount and Page's Atlas Maritimus Novus..."" (Rodney Shirley). - Not in Phillips. - Shirley Vol. II: M.M&P - 12 b.
Travels from France to Italy, through the Lepontine Alps; or, an itinerary from Lyons to Turin, by the way of Pays-de-Vaud, the Vallais, and across the Monts Great St. Bernard, Simplon, and St. Gothard: with topographical and historical descriptions of the principal places which lie contiguous to the route; including some philosophical observations on the natural history and elevation of that part of the Alps to which are added remarks on the course of the Rhone from its source to the Mediterranean Sea.
London, Printed by S. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1800, in-folio, 4 leaves (1 blank - printed title-page - advertisements - contents) + 1 engraved title-page with view + 218 p. + 1 blank leaf + 1 folded handcoloured engraved map ‘Chart of places... including the principal peaks of that chain of the alps from the Buchetta to Mont St. Gotthard’ + 1 townmap of Lyon in black + 25 plates printed in brown (soot brown or ‘bistre’), with most of the original protective tissue gards (mostly browned in the margins), some waterstains to the lower margins of the engraved title-page and some others, hw. ownership on first free fly ‘J. Matilda Scott’, Original leather spine, boards with rests of orig.-paper.
First edition, reprinted in 1806. This book has never been translated into French. Illustrated engraved titlepage with view followed by the numbered plates I to XXVII, which include 1 general coloured map, 1 town-plan of Lyon printed in black and 25 views printed in bistre, all after drawings by Albanis Beaumont. (Liste of plates available). Abbey: Travel in Aquatint & Lithography n° 53; Wäber, 109; Perret 333: Bel album très rare et très recherché pour la qualité des illustrations. Image disp.
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