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Session 2 | March 14, 2017  | 413 Lots

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Voyage du Duc du Chatelet, en Portugal [BOURGOING, Jean François, Baron].- Voyage du Duc du Chatelet, en Portugal, ou se trouvent des détails intéressans sur ce Royaume, ses habitans, ses colonies; sur la Cour et M. de Pombal, sur le tremblement de terre de Lisbonne, etc. Revu, corrigé sur le manuscrit, et augmenté de notes sur la situation actuelle de ce Royaume et de ses colonies.- Seconde edition.- Paris: Chez F. Buisson, 1801.- 2 vols.: 1 gravura desdobr., 1 mapa desdobr.; 19 cm.- E. A very popular work but full of inaccuracies, attributed to Jean François de Bourgoing (1748-1811). The organisation of the two volumes is as follows: I-[4], VIII, 268 p.: 2 engravings brochures; II-[4], p. 260 the first volume includes an engraving near the title page (representing the mouth of the Tagus River and the Belém Tower) and a map of Portugal. Copy slightly handled and with some acidity, notably on the Tagus engraving; signed title pages (and half title page of the first volume): João Batista de Lara. Slightly fatigued 19th century bindings with the spine of the second volume rebuilt. The current edition is not referred by Duarte de Sousa.

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