Voyage de L´Inde a la Mekke 1797 5 vol
Klubbat för:
1 300 SEK
Estimate
2 000 SEK
Description
VOYAGES PERSIA INDIA ETC (5). (LANGLÈS (translater) Voyage de la Perse dans l´Inde et du Bengal en Perse. I-II. Paris an VI (1797-98)., HODGES. Voyages pittoresque de L´Inde... I-II. Paris an XIII, 1805, Voyage de l´Inde a la Mekke... traduit par Langlès. Paris 1797. (Collection portative des voyages I-V).
Small 8vo (125x75 mm). 4 engraved plates. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel. Contemporary full calf bindings, gilt spines with red labels. Worming to one volume, some loss of letters at the end. Not complete, lacking atlas. 5 volumes.
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 revoloution.
Condition
See text. Lacking the atlas.
Auktionsnummer:
408964
Date:
2016-09-29