MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy, Pierre MOREAU & Fr. CAUCHE. Relations veritables et curieuses de l'isle de Madagascar, et du Bresil . Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1651. Small 4° (235 x 175mm). 2 titles, 2 engraved maps, one folding, additional portrait bound-in before title (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary marbled calf, gilt arms of Jacques François de Johanne de la Carre, marquis de Saumery on sides [Olivier, 1797, fer 1], spine lettered and decorated in gilt (repaired along joints). Provenance : Duchesse de Berry (bookplate).
MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy, Pierre MOREAU & Fr. CAUCHE. Relations veritables et curieuses de l'isle de Madagascar, et du Bresil . Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1651. Small 4° (235 x 175mm). 2 titles, 2 engraved maps, one folding, additional portrait bound-in before title (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary marbled calf, gilt arms of Jacques François de Johanne de la Carre, marquis de Saumery on sides [Olivier, 1797, fer 1], spine lettered and decorated in gilt (repaired along joints). Provenance : Duchesse de Berry (bookplate). 'This collection, but little known and insufficiently described by bibliographies, is due to Augustine Courbé of Paris, who caused it to be edited by M. Morisot after some material which he had received in part from the celebrated brothers Dupuy, to who the work is dedicated', Sabin 50724. Brunet I, 1685; cf. Borba de Moraes p.598.
MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy, Pierre MOREAU & Fr. CAUCHE. Relations veritables et curieuses de l'isle de Madagascar, et du Bresil . Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1651. Small 4° (235 x 175mm). 2 titles, 2 engraved maps, one folding, additional portrait bound-in before title (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary marbled calf, gilt arms of Jacques François de Johanne de la Carre, marquis de Saumery on sides [Olivier, 1797, fer 1], spine lettered and decorated in gilt (repaired along joints). Provenance : Duchesse de Berry (bookplate).
MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy, Pierre MOREAU & Fr. CAUCHE. Relations veritables et curieuses de l'isle de Madagascar, et du Bresil . Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1651. Small 4° (235 x 175mm). 2 titles, 2 engraved maps, one folding, additional portrait bound-in before title (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary marbled calf, gilt arms of Jacques François de Johanne de la Carre, marquis de Saumery on sides [Olivier, 1797, fer 1], spine lettered and decorated in gilt (repaired along joints). Provenance : Duchesse de Berry (bookplate). 'This collection, but little known and insufficiently described by bibliographies, is due to Augustine Courbé of Paris, who caused it to be edited by M. Morisot after some material which he had received in part from the celebrated brothers Dupuy, to who the work is dedicated', Sabin 50724. Brunet I, 1685; cf. Borba de Moraes p.598.
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