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The first edition in French. This important work describes Aubry de la Mottraye’s extensive travels over a 26-year period. A Huguenot, he journeyed through northern Europe to Tartary and the Levant. Some of the plates are notable for being the work of the engraver William Hogarth and are some of his earliest works. The plates illustrate the antiquities, objets d’art and scenes from Eastern life. The second part describes in greater detail Germany, Russia and Sweden. The maps depict the Mediterranean and Black Seas at the end of the first volume, and the Caspian Seas and Scandinavia in the second volume. Atabey 661; Blackmer 946; Brunet III, 801; Cox 1, p.77-7.
LA MOTTRAYE, Aubry de
Voyages du Sr. A. de la Motraye en Europe, Asie & Afrique
The Hague, 1727
Quarto (315 x 220 mm.), 2 volumes in one, in full contemporary calf, extremely ornate gilt ribbed spine in compartments and with a yellow calf title label, a few small wormholes to spine, otherwise in good condition. With half-title, titles in red and black and with engraved vignettes, 2 engraved additional pictorial frontispieces, titles, 47 plates (27 folding) and 4 maps (2 folding), short tear at foot of ‘King of Sweden’s First Encampment’ plate, occasional spotting, pp. [xiv], 472, 23 (appendix); [vi], 496, 39 (appendix). In good condition.
Stock number: 7811
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