[RENNEVILLE, René Augustin Constantin de (1650-1723)]. Recueil des Voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & au progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas . Amsterdam: Isaac Rey, 1754. A fine set, in contemporary crushed morocco, of an important collection of voyages relating to the establishment of the Dutch East India Company. The work is mainly a translation of Commelin's Begin en Voortang (1645). Cf. Brunet IV 20659: ‘nous parait ètre la même que la précédente [1725 edition], avec des titres nouveaux’; cf. Cox p.31; Lust 657; Sabin 68454; cf. Landwehr 253. 5 volumes in 10, 12mo (159 x 90mm). 9 engraved frontispieces (including frontispiece to second section of vol. 1), 10 titles in red and black, 55 engraved plates, most folding (tears in 2 plates, a few quires in vol. 4 lightly stained in margins). Contemporary crushed olive morocco, borders ruled in gilt, spines decoratively gilt with floral motifs, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Provenance : illegible inscription on title of vol. 9.
[RENNEVILLE, René Augustin Constantin de (1650-1723)]. Recueil des Voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & au progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas . Amsterdam: Isaac Rey, 1754. A fine set, in contemporary crushed morocco, of an important collection of voyages relating to the establishment of the Dutch East India Company. The work is mainly a translation of Commelin's Begin en Voortang (1645). Cf. Brunet IV 20659: ‘nous parait ètre la même que la précédente [1725 edition], avec des titres nouveaux’; cf. Cox p.31; Lust 657; Sabin 68454; cf. Landwehr 253. 5 volumes in 10, 12mo (159 x 90mm). 9 engraved frontispieces (including frontispiece to second section of vol. 1), 10 titles in red and black, 55 engraved plates, most folding (tears in 2 plates, a few quires in vol. 4 lightly stained in margins). Contemporary crushed olive morocco, borders ruled in gilt, spines decoratively gilt with floral motifs, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Provenance : illegible inscription on title of vol. 9.
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