JEAN-FRANÇOIS DE LA HARPE - 1739-1803 Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré; les mœurs des habitants, la religion, les usages, arts & sciences, commerce, manufactures...- A Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1780-1801.- 32 vols.: il.; 21 cm.- B. Jean-François de La Harpe (1739-1803), educator, literary critic, writer and French Aademic, was a friend of Voltaire. The work, which obtained great popularity, is a compilation of texts by various authors. A set lacking the bigger atlas that should contain the maps. The first 21 volumes have 76 engravings, numbered from 1 to 82, therefore missing 6. The remaining 11 volumes retain 20 engravings of which 4 are folding maps but only the first 6 are numbered, so verification is difficult. On the last volume the following final pages of the indexes are sillt missing: I to IV and XXV to XLVIII. Some water tide stains on volume II and marginal ones on volumes III, XIV, XV and XXVIII. Some volumes with dusty and irregular margins. A brochure copy not trimmed, plain paper coverings lined, exactly the way it was published. Brunet, III, col. 771.