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CHINA. (14). BARROW, JOHN. Voyage en Chine, a la suite de l´ambassade de Lord Macartney... Traduit de l´anglais per m. J. B. J. Breton. I-VI + Atlas. Paris (chez la veuve Lepetit) 1807.

12:o. 21 engraved plates, of which 19 double-page and 2 coloured (all, one close cut in left margin).
Contemporary red half leather, gilt spines, yellow edges. Title to Atlas close cut in the margins with loss of some lettering. Some minor foxing. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel. +

MACARTNEY, (G.). Voyage en Chine et en Tartarie... Traduit de l´anglais par J. B. J. Breton. I-VI + Atlas. Paris (chez la veive Lepetit) 1804.

12:o. 1 folding engraved map, 22 engraved partly double-page plates (all, some minor foxing).
Contemporary red half leather, gilt spines, yellow edges. Title to Atlas close cut in the margins with loss of some lettering. Some minor foxing. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel. 14 volumes.

Published in the series Bibliothèque portative des voyages. All volumes except one lacks serial titles.

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.

Auktionsnummer:

6118

Datum:

2017-06-20