Wheler (George). Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant, 1st edition in French, 1689, & others
Sold for £620
Wheler (George). Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant ... traduit de l'anglois, 1st edition in French, Amsterdam: Jean Wolters, 1689, additional engraved title-page (counted in register), 8 double-page numismatic plates, 5 plates of inscriptions (of which 4 folding), folding map, 72 further plates, small hole from quire Y to end (quire 2D) and intervening plates, repaired closed tear to folding plate of inscriptions facing p. 483, plate at p. 491 chipped along fore edge, contemporary ownership inscription 'J. D. Boudrit' to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 12mo (14.6 x 8.8 cm), together with:
Clüver (Philipp), Introductionis in universam geographiam ... accessi P. Bertii Breviarum orbis terrarum, Utrecht: Willem Broedelet, 1701, signatures *6 A-S12 T4 (-T4), engraved title-page, 39 engraved folding maps (of 41), spotting to quires * and T, leaves of quire * slightly brittle and chipped, light spotting along blank margins of maps and occasionally to text-leaves, map of Italy at p. 131 partially separated along one fold, map of Africa at p. 269 with a few holes along fold, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, 12mo (13.2 x 7 cm),
[Loredano, Giovanni Francesco], Historie de' re Lusignani, publicate da Henrico Giblet, Venice: Guerigli, 1679, additional engraved title (laid down with section of loss to margin), damp-staining, contemporary vellum, 12mo (15 x 7.8 cm),
Vero (Giovanni Battista), Rerum Venetarum libri sex. Quarta impression, Padua: Typis seminarii, 1684, [14] 870 pp., front free endpaper excised, contemporary ownership inscription 'Ex libris Balthasaris Hippolito de Paradiso' to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 12mo (14.3 x 7 cm)
(Qty: 4)
Blackmer 1787 (Wheler); Cobham-Jeffery p. 23 (Loredano).
Wheler's work was first published in 1682 as A Journey Into Greece and 'remained the standard book on Greece for many years' (Blackmer). Loredano's work first appeared in 1647; OCLC traces two copies for this edition world-wide. The first quire in Vero's work is irregularly signed but the 14 preliminary pages correspond to other copies we have located.
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Sold for £620
Wheler (George). Voyage de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant ... traduit de l'anglois, 1st edition in French, Amsterdam: Jean Wolters, 1689, additional engraved title-page (counted in register), 8 double-page numismatic plates, 5 plates of inscriptions (of which 4 folding), folding map, 72 further plates, small hole from quire Y to end (quire 2D) and intervening plates, repaired closed tear to folding plate of inscriptions facing p. 483, plate at p. 491 chipped along fore edge, contemporary ownership inscription 'J. D. Boudrit' to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 12mo (14.6 x 8.8 cm), together with:
Clüver (Philipp), Introductionis in universam geographiam ... accessi P. Bertii Breviarum orbis terrarum, Utrecht: Willem Broedelet, 1701, signatures *6 A-S12 T4 (-T4), engraved title-page, 39 engraved folding maps (of 41), spotting to quires * and T, leaves of quire * slightly brittle and chipped, light spotting along blank margins of maps and occasionally to text-leaves, map of Italy at p. 131 partially separated along one fold, map of Africa at p. 269 with a few holes along fold, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, 12mo (13.2 x 7 cm),
[Loredano, Giovanni Francesco], Historie de' re Lusignani, publicate da Henrico Giblet, Venice: Guerigli, 1679, additional engraved title (laid down with section of loss to margin), damp-staining, contemporary vellum, 12mo (15 x 7.8 cm),
Vero (Giovanni Battista), Rerum Venetarum libri sex. Quarta impression, Padua: Typis seminarii, 1684, [14] 870 pp., front free endpaper excised, contemporary ownership inscription 'Ex libris Balthasaris Hippolito de Paradiso' to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 12mo (14.3 x 7 cm)
(Qty: 4)
Blackmer 1787 (Wheler); Cobham-Jeffery p. 23 (Loredano).
Wheler's work was first published in 1682 as A Journey Into Greece and 'remained the standard book on Greece for many years' (Blackmer). Loredano's work first appeared in 1647; OCLC traces two copies for this edition world-wide. The first quire in Vero's work is irregularly signed but the 14 preliminary pages correspond to other copies we have located.
