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LA CROIX, A. Phérotée de (1640?-1715?) Relation universelle de l'Afrique ancienne et moderne, où l'
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Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,250.00 EUR
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Jun 08 @ 05:30UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
LA CROIX, A. Phérotée de (1640?-1715?) Relation universelle de l'Afrique ancienne et moderne, où l'on voit ce qu'il y a de remarquable, tant dans la terre ferme que dans les isles, avec ce que le Roy a fait de mémorable contre les Corsaires de Barbarie, &c. Imprimé à Lyon, et se vend à Paris, chez Michel Guérout, 1688. 4 vol. in-12° : [20 dont front.]-12-536-[16], [2]-576-[20], [2]-576-[20], [2]-716-[16] pp. et 82 planches (inc. des pp. 455-456 du tome IV, lég. us. générale, qqs mouill. ou déchirures marginales, qqs pp. inversées lors de la rel., qqs galeries de vers marginales). Rel. de l'époque : plein veau, dos fleuronnés dorés à nerfs (rel. craquelée, mors et coiffes part. émoussés). FORT RARE OUVRAGE. Réédition faite sur l'originale parue la même année à Lyon, chez Thomas Amaulry. Le tome I est dévolu aux "païs blancs, c'est-à-dire l'Egypte, la Barbarie, le Biledulgerid ou Numidie & le Zahara ou Desert", le tome II aux "païs des Noirs qui comprend la Nubie, la Nigritie, la Guinée", le tome III à la haute et basse Ethiopie et le tome IV aux îles qui se trouvent aux environs de l'Afrique comme Malte (et les chevaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) et Madagascar. Illustré d'un frontispice et 82 cartes ou planches naturalistes, ethnographiques, topographiques souvent dépliantes (sur les 80 annoncées, il y en a 3 manquantes et 5 ajoutées). L'ouvrage est attribué à François Pétis de La Croix fils par Rouard de Card, Livres français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles concernant les pays états barbaresques, 1911, p. 12.# Chadenat 887 (unique ex. de l'éd. de Lyon, 1713); # pas dans Gay; # ni Brunet; # ni Blackmer. 1.500 Euros
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