‎Voyages du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, en divers pays eeoignez. 3 vols. - [SECOND FRENCH TRANSLATION OF GULLIER'S TRAVELS]‎

‎La Haye, Vander Poel, 1730. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Scratches to boards with occassional loss of leather. Traces from small paper-label to upper compartment on spine on vol. 1. Dampstain to upper outer margin of first 15 ff. in vol 3. An overall nice and clean set. (8), 212 pp. + frontispiece and 4 plates (8), 220 pp. + 6 plates (32), 336 pp. + 2 plates. ‎

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‎The rare second French translation of Gulliver’s Travels. The first translation was done by Desfontaines in 1727, this present translation was done anonymously and is much scarcer than the first 1727-edition. The original English edition was not, even by the well-educated English speaking, read in Franch:”Voltaire was one of the few people in eighteenth-century France to have had access to the English original. Discussing Gulliver’s Travels in a letter to M. Thieriot of February 1727, he calls Swift the English Rabelais indeed, he regarded him as superior to Rabelais, dubbing him the Rabelais “sans fatras”. What impressed him most in Gulliver’s Travels were the “strokes of imagination” and the lightness of style, “even if it were not in addition a satire on human kind.” Although Voltaire read the original, as yet unexpurgated version of Gulliver’s Travels, he did not accuse Swift of presenting too pessimistic a view of mankind. Nevertheless, he had some doubts about the success Swift’s works would enjoy in France. The French, he says, “will never have a very good understanding of the books of the ingenious Dr Swift” because the satire puts high demands on people’s knowledge of English culture, history, and politics, a knowledge not sufficiently available in France. One of Swift’s friends, the exiled Bishop Atterbury, shared these doubts on the grounds that the French had a different sense of humor from the English, and would therefore have difficulties understanding the significance of Gulliver’s Travels. A different view was held by Lady Bolingbroke, widow of the Marquis de Villette and second wife of the exiled Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. She was one of the most ardent admirers of Swift in France, and was convinced that her compatriots would profit from the translation which had been announced but was not yet published” (Just, The Reception of Gulliver’s Travels in Britain and Ireland, France, and Germany) Teerink, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift: 374 Amélie Derome Les traductions en langue française de Gulliver’s Travels de Jonathan Swift, no. 8‎

‎Voyages du Capitaine Gulliver en divers pays eloignez. Tome second (seul).‎

‎A La Haye, chez Jean Swart, M. DCC. LXXVIII. 1778, pt. in-8°, frontispice gravé + 204 p. + 2 ff. table, non rogné, cartonnage d’attente.‎

‎ Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie, des Voyages extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction (1972) p. 850. ‎

‎Voyages de Gulliver par Swift‎

‎ "traduits par l'abbé Desfontaines précédés d'un étude sur la vie et les écrits de Swift par René Delorme". Paris. Librairie F. Polo. sans date, 1 volume(27 x 19,5 cm) relié demi chagrin fauve , dos à nerfs , 327 p. + illustrations. Très bon état, a regretter des feuillets plus ou moins touchés par taches brunes . Ex Libris Yves Guermont ‎

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‎Voyage d'Henri Swinburne dans les Deux-Siciles, en 1777, 1778, 1779 et 1780, traduit de l'anglois par un voyageur françois. Tome second. ‎

‎A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Didot L'Aîné, 1785. In-8 broché sous couverture d'attente, défraîchie. Importants manques de papier au dos, quelques rousseurs. ‎

‎Second tome seul, sur quatre. ‎

‎Voyages dans les Deux Siciles dans les années 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduits de l'anglois par Mademoiselle de Keralio.‎

‎Paris : Théophile Barrois le Jeune, 1785 In-8, XL-394-(2) pages. Demi-basane de l'époque, dos lisse orné.‎

‎Dos très frotté avec manque de cuir sur trois centimètres en queue. Traduction du premier volume de Travels in the Two Sicilies, qui parut pour la première fois en anglais en 1783-1785. La traductrice est l'écrivaine féministe Louise Félicité Guynement de Kéralio (1757-1821), plus tard Madame Robert. La traduction française intégrale, par Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, fut publiée en cinq volumes chez Didot en 1785-1787. Conlon, Le siècle des lumières : bibliographie chronologique, XXI, 450.‎

‎Les Merveilles du monde.‎

‎PRINCESSE. 1978. In-4. Relié toilé. Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 157 pages. Nombreuses photos en couleurs dans le texte et en planches hors-texte. Relié pleine toile beige.. . . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

‎Tour de Londres, Château de Windsor, Mont Saint-Michel, Tour Eiffel, Vallé du Rhin, Cathédrale de Cologne, Pompéi, Grottes d'Altamira, Monaco.... Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

‎PRISONNIERS AU TIBET ROUGE‎

‎FLAMMARION. 1959. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Intérieur bon état. 250 pages illustrées de photographies noir et blanc sur planches hors texte; jaquette frottée.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

‎Collection l'aventure vécue. Classification Dewey : 910.4-Voyages‎

‎A History of Exploration from the earliest Times to the present Day.‎

‎London, Georg Routledge & Sons, 1934. Royal8vo. orig. full cloth. XIV,374 pp., plates and many maps.‎

‎La Houille blanche.‎

‎ 1925 br. in-12, 218pp., ill., Grenoble Rey 1925‎

‎Histoire de la guerre d'indépendance Algérienne.‎

‎ Flammarion 2005, in/8 broché,303 pages. Photographies en noir.‎

‎Reise des brittischen Gesandten Herrn Michael Symes nach dem Königreiche Ava im Jahr 1795. Aus dem Englischen auszugsweise übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von M.C. Sprengel. Nebst einer Charte.‎

‎Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1801. Unbound, but stitched. (1),XXX,239 pp., 1 foldet engraved map. Light browning to leaves.‎

‎First German edition of ""An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava in the Year 1795. London, 1800"". (Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen...hrsg. von M.C. Sprengel. 4. Bd.: 1. Theil). Also having the series titlepage, this with a stamp.‎

‎Au pays des Villes d'Or. Une ancienne capitale de l'Afrique latine. Cherchel‎

‎Imp. Minerva - Alger 1932 77 p. in-8 br., Guide Officiel du Syndicat d'Initiative de Césarée (Cherchel), nombr. ill. in-t., 1 plan dépl., 1 carte-itinéraire, cachet du Syndicat d'Initiative de Césarée et mention manuscrite du prix sur couverture, bon état ‎

‎NAMUR. Ses richesses et sa beaute‎

‎In 4 couverture souple, illustrÈe. 135 pages. Illustrations n/b et couleurs. Bon Ètat 1976 ‎

‎Poitiers et ses environs. Guide -Itinéraire des Touristes.‎

‎CHEZ L'AUTEUR. 1916. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 80 pages. Nombreuses illustrations, photos et cartes en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors-texte. Plan dépliant en noir et blanc. 2nd plat détaché. Manques importants sur le dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 908.446-Régionalisme : Poitou-Charentes‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 908.446-Régionalisme : Poitou-Charentes‎

‎Képec a Magyarorszagi Ciganysag 20. Szazadi Történetéböl. " A vilag létra, melyen az egyik fel, a masik le megy". Pictures of the history of Gipsies in Hungary in the 20th century. "World is a ladder, wich some go up, some go down". Antropologiai fotoalbum. Anthropological photo-album.‎

‎ Budapest, Néprajzi Museum, 1993. In-4 broché, 365 pp. sur deux colonnes, 736 ill. photogr. en noir et coul. à pleine page, bibliographie. ‎

‎Texte bilingue hongrois et anglais. Très bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €) ‎

‎DIX MILLES KILOMETRES A TRAVERS LE MEXIQUE .‎

‎(1919-1910) . 1913 . Plon, In 12 br.344 pp.22 gravures H.T.(Qq.piq.) .‎

‎La Vie quotidienne en Nouvelle-Calédonie de 1850 à nos jours‎

‎Hachette, coll. « La Vie quotidienne » 1985 In-8 broché 20 cm sur 13. 363 pages. Rousseurs importantes sur les pages. Couverture insolée.. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎ Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎Haltes en Mandchourie et en Corée, précédé de Textes londoniens. Préface de Takaaki Yoshimoto. Traduit de japonais par Olivier Jamet et Elisabeth Suetsugu. Collection Voyager avec...‎

‎ Paris, La Quinzaine Littéraire, Louis Vuitton 1997, 215x150mm, 313pages, broché. Couverture à rabats. Bel exemplaire. ‎

‎ photos n/b, ‎

‎Tabakreise nach brasilien. ‎

‎Mainz, Mainzer verlagsanstalt und druckerei Will & Rothe, s.d.; in 16, 188 pp., broché, couverture illustr. Auf den spuren der charitos.‎

‎Auf den spuren der charitos.‎

‎L'Atlantique en 10 jours. L'histoire d'un record‎

‎Editions du Pen Duick , Paris 1981, 15,5x23,5cm, broché.‎

‎Edition originale pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Iconographie. Dos légèrement décoloré comme habituellement, second plat marginalement insolé, sinon agréable exemplaire. Envoi autographe signé d'Eric Tabarly à un homme prénommé Philippe. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com - ‎

‎Yaka de Terre Adélie.‎

‎ 1955 1 Paris, Julliard, "coll. La croix du sud", 1955, in-8° br. carré, ill. ‎

‎Second voyage du pere Tachard et des jesuites envoyes par le roy, au royaume de Siam. - [THE SECOND EMBASSY TO SIAM]‎

‎Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1689. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with stains. Edges of bookblock with stains which has also miscoloured upper and outer margins of leaves. (6), 168, 183-254, 241-351, 360-369, (7) p., + 6 folded plates.‎

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‎Second edition of Tachard’s account of the second embassy to Siam in which the commercial treaty from 1685 (the first Embassy) was reaffirmed. Despite its primary goal of reinforcing the 1685 commercial treaty, the mission was not a success. The embassy consisted of five warships The arrival of French troops in Bangkok and Mergui incited intense nationalist movements in Siam which eventually resuted in a bloody revolution: “Exactly six months later, on 1 March, the three mandarins and their suite sailed back to Siam, taking with them Louis XIV's second French embassy to Phra Narai, headed this time by Simon de La Loubere and Claude Ceberet de Boullay.211 Ostensibly, its mission was to strengthen the diplomatic and commercial ties already established between the two kingdoms by concluding a firm alliance. But the real goal probably was to establish a protectorate over Siam, using the 636 soldiers sent out with the new envoys as an initial holding force-hardly the small bodyguard requested originally by the Asian monarch. But this embassy, too, failed to achieve its objectives. A fresh trade treaty was negotiated, to be sure, though under very trying conditions meanwhile, the steady growth of strong xenophobic sentiment at the Siamese court over the foreign military occupation of Bangkok and the port of Mergui on the Bay of Bengal did not bode well for the future. In fact, just six months after the ambassadors had left for France in January 1688, Siam exploded in a bloody revolution that toppled Phra Narai's dynasty from the throne, overthrew the French garrison and closed the kingdom to Europeans except for a single Dutch trading post.213 By the time news of the disaster had reached Europe, Louis XIV was engaged heavily in a new war with his continental enemies and was in no position to respond. French contact with Siam thus ended abruptly for the next 150 years.” (Love, The Making of an Oriental Despot: Louis XIV and the Siamese Embassy of 1686). Guy Tachard (1651 – 1712), also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician who participated in both the first and second Embassy to Siam. A 4to-edition was published the same year. Graesse VII, 7 Nissen 4067‎

‎Carte de la Province du Québec, Canada dressée au département des terres de la Couronne. ‎

‎1870. Une feuille 96 x 140 cm pliée et toilée, sous chemise percaline à lacet.‎

‎Avec dans une cartouche, la carte de la partie Nord-est de la Province de Québec s’étendant de la pointe occidentale de l’Ile d’Anticosti jusqu’à l’Anse au Blanc Sablon.‎

‎The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs, 1 Vol‎

‎ 1919 London: Frederick Warne, 1920. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Archibald Thornburn and Others. second issue 1 Volume, illustrated throughout. , 242 accurately colored illustrations by Archibald Thornburn. Pectoral inside covers front and back. Red leather over boards with gold lettering and design on the front and on the spine with black line stamped illustrations on the spine. No dust jacket. Text and illustrations are bright and clean, binding also, , No Dust Jacket. Text and illustrations are bright and clean, binding is secure, light speckling to all page edges.‎