Lot n° 194
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L'Univers Pittoresque. History and description of all people - Lot 194
L'Univers Pittoresque. History and description of all peoples, their religions, manners, customs, industries. Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1838-18. 35 volumes (out of 69 that comprise the complete collection), in-8 bound and stapled. Collection divided according to the 5 parts of the world.
- Europe : 20 volumes (out of 42).
1/ - Golbéry, Ph. de . - History and description of Switzerland and the Tyrol (1838), paperback with small damage to the cover, scattered foxing - [4 ff.], 460 pp. 1 folding map and 92 pll. h-t (complete). 2/ - Forster, Ch. - Poland (1840), paperback - [2 ff.], 348 pp. 1 folded map and 54 plates h-t (complete). 3/ - Le Bas, Ph.. - Germany and states of the German confederation...(1838-1842), 3 vols. (1838-1842), 3 vols. of half calf leather with smooth spines - [2 ff.], 495 pp; [2 ff.], 480 pp, [3 pp]; [2 ff.], 88 pp (Bohemia) - 76 pp, [1 f. table], (Hungary) - 46 pp, [1 f. table], (Saxony) - 79 pp, [1 f. table] - 61 pp, [1 f.] (Bavaria) - 39 pp. (Württemberg) - 24 pp. (Baden) - 44 pp. (Hessian States) - 144 pp. (Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Anhalt, Hohenzollern, Lippe, Waldeck, Lichtenstein). In total 2 maps and 222 pll. h-t (for 276 announced). 4/ - Roux de Rochelle. - Villes Anséatiques; (1844), half calf with smooth spine - 398 pp. 1 folded map and 18 pll. h-t; Le Bas, Austria - 140 pp. 26 pll; h-t; 3/ - Van Hasselt, Belgique et Hollande (1844), half calf with smooth spine - 551 pp. 1 folding map and 60 pll; (complete). 5/ - Chopin, Russia - Famin, C., La Crimée, Circasie et Georgie - Boré, Arménie (1838), 2 volumes, half calf leather with smooth spines - [2 ff.], 384 pp. ; [2 ff.], 385 to 672, (Russia, continued) [2 ff.], 32 pp. (Crimée), 48 pp. (Circasie et Georgie), 144 pp. (Arménie). In total 5 maps and 100 pll. h-t for Russia (complete), 1 map and 8 pll. h-t for Crimea, 1 folded map and 12 pll. h-t for Circasia and Georgia, 1 folded map and 35 pll. h-t. 6/ - Galibert, L. - Pellé, Cl.- England, Scotland and Ireland. (1842-1844) - 4 vols. half calf with smooth spine - [2 ff;], 488 pp, 1 double-page map, 93 pll. h-t ; [2 ff], 560 pp, 24 pll. h-t ; [2 ff], 469 pp, 8 pll. h-t ; [2 ff], 574 pp, [1 f. table], 2 maps and 79 pll. h-t ; In total 3 maps and 204 pll. (complete). 7/ - Lavallée, J. - Guéroult, - Spain (1844-1847), 2 vols. T I : half-basecloth with spotted smooth spine; T II, paperback, minor defects - Spain : [2 ff.], 568 pp ; [2 ff.], 412 pp, [1 f.], 2 folding maps and 83 pll. h-t (complete) followed by: Denis, F., Portugal - [2 ff.], 439 pp, [1 f.], 28 pll. h-t (of 32 announced). 8/ . Eyriès, J. B. - Chopin. - Denmark (1846), paperback - [2 ff.], 415 pp, [1 f.], 24 pll. h-t (complete); followed by: Friess-Colonna, C. de - History of Corsica - 144 pp., 1 map and 7 pll. h-t; followed by: Lacroix, Fr. - Balearic Islands and Pityuses - 4 pll. h-t (including 1 of Malta). 9/ - Le Bas, Ph. - Sweden and Norway (1838), half-box with corners, spine with black title, cover on board. - Sweden: [2 ff.], 504 pp. with 1 folding map and 47 pll. h-t (out of 48 announced); Norway: pp. 505 to 565, [1 f.], 12 pll. h-t (complete). 10/ - Pouqueville. - Greece (1835), half-box with corners, spine ribbed, black title page, cover on board. - 2 ff.], 448 pp, 2 folding maps and 112 pll. h-t (complete). 11/ - Jouannin. - Turkey (1840), half calf leather with smooth spine - [2 ff.], 460 pp, 1 folding map and 93 plates h-t (of which 2 folding) (out of 95 announced). 12/ - Le Chevalier G. de - Gregory. - Island of Sardinia (1839), paperback - 49 pp., 1 map and 15 pll. h-t. Followed by : Lacroix, Fr. - Malta and Le Goze - 192 pp. 1 map and 39 pll. h-t (complete).
- Africa : 3 volumes (out of 7). 1/ - d'Avezac, Tableau général - Dureau de la malle, Afrique ancienne. (1842), half-box with corners, black title page, cons. cover. - 2 ff.], 272 pp. 7 pll. h-t (placed after Carthage); Yanoski, Domination des vandales. (1844) - [2 ff.], III pp.(preface), 108 pp., [1 f., table] this part, with binder's errors, but complete; Yanoski, L'Afrique chrétienne - 63 pp. ; Rozet, P., Alger - 32 pp. 8 pll. h-t ; Dureau de La Malle, Carthage - 170 pp, 3 plans, 1 of which is double-page, and 12 plates h-t (complete); Lacroix, L., Histoire de la Numidie et de la Mauritanie - 96 pp. 1 plate h-t; Charlier, V., Iles madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice - 64 pp. 8 plates h-t. 2/ - Champollion-Figeac. - Ancient Egypt (1839), half calf with smooth spine - 500 pp. 89 pll. (out of 92 announced); Cherubini, S., Nubia - 136 pp. 1 double-page map and 24 pll. h-t; Desvergers, A. N., Abyssinia - 48 pp. 1 double-page map and 12 pll; h-t. 3/ - Egypt (1848), half-box with corners, spine with nerves, black title-piece, cons. cover. Marcel, J. J., Egypt, from the Arab conquest to the French domination - [2 ff.], 255 pp. Drawings in-t.; Ryme, A., Modern Egypt. Period of the French domination - 215 pp. ; P. and H., Modern Egypt, under the domination of Mehemet Aly - 212 pp. In total 74 pll. h-t don
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