Travels - New collection of travels in the... - Lot 9 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

Travels - New collection of travels in the north of Europe and Asia, containing extracts from the most esteemed travel reports, which have never been published in French. Work translated from different languages, by a society of literary people, with notes, clarifications, and enriched with maps and many views and drawings engraved by the best artists. Geneva, Paul Barde and Paris, Moutard, Merigot le jeune, 1785, 2 vols (out of 6) 8°, XV-[1 bl.]-375-[1 bl.]-[1] p., 5 folding plates and 1 large folding map, and VI-328-[2] p., 4 folding plates, full contemporary speckled calf, spine with decorated nerves (light spotting in the 1st vol., binding restored). It takes 6 volumes for this collection which includes 2 distinct works, the first in 2 numbered volumes and the second in 4 numbered volumes. We have here, as often the first two volumes rare and complete in themselves, they include: "Isles of Scilly" by William Borlase, "Description of the Isle of Anglesey, North West Wales" by Thomas Pennant, "Relation of a Voyage of Milord Littelton to North Wales, and to the Isle of Anglesey" by Thomas Pennant, "Voyage to Scotland and the Hebrides" by Thomas Pennant, "Description of the Isle of Staffa" by Uno von Troil, "Description of the Isle of Staffa" by Joseph Banks.