Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Exploration, Natural History and Travel Literature
Lot 93

MOTRAYE, AUBRE DE LA. 1674-1743.
Travels Through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa. London: Printed for the author, 1723-1732.

25 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$1,020 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

MOTRAYE, AUBRE DE LA. 1674-1743.

Travels Through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa. London: Printed for the author, 1723-1732.
3 volumes. Folio (340 x 222 mm). Engraved frontispiece in volume III, 53 (of 63?) engraved maps, plans and plates (some folding or double-page). Rebacked contemporary paneled calf. Covers chipped, especially at corners, ink ownership inscriptions on title pages, folding map at head of volume I torn with significant loss, some plates repaired, a few plates trimmed with losses, some ink marginalia, browning and spotting, a few rust holes, edge chipping with some paper repairs to corners.

FIRST EDITION. Although the author was French, no French edition was published until 1727. The later third volume includes a treatise on European orders of knighthood, in addition to the history and geography of Prussia, Poland and Russia. A variety of engravers contributed to the plates, including William Hogarth. Cox I, 77-78; ESTC T142580; Hamilton Palace II, 1479.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ARCHITECTURE - STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT The Antiquities of Athens, 4 vol. bound in 2, 1825-1830

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

ARMENIAN - HISTORY, THEOLOGY AND PRINTING. Group of books/a map in Armenian, c.1825-1901 (12)

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]

BANK NOTES - MANUFACTURING BRADBURY (HENRY) On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1856