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LA MOTTRAYE (AUBREY DE)
Voyages... en Europe, Asie & Afrique our l'on trouvé une grande varieté de recherches geographiques, 2 vol.

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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LA MOTTRAYE (AUBREY DE)

Voyages... en Europe, Asie & Afrique our l'on trouvé une grande varieté de recherches geographiques, 2 vol., first edition in French, engraved allegorical frontispieces, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 47 engraved plates (several folding), 4 folding engraved maps, without half-titles, ownership of Lucy Lyttleton, bookplate of Hagley Hall (with stamp on titles), modern blue morocco gilt, gilt ship and anchor devices within raised bands on spine [Atabey 661; Blackmer 946; Weber 443], folio, The Hague, T. Johnson and J. Van Duren, 1727

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"This important work describes La Mottraye's travels over a 26-year period which took him through Northern Europe to Tartary and the Levant" (Blackmer). Several of the plates, illustrating antiquities and scenes of eastern life, are signed by William Hogarth.

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