BENYOVSZKY (Móric Agost). Voyages et mémoires de Maurice-Aug - Lot 47

BENYOVSZKY (Móric Agost). Voyages et mémoires de Maurice-Auguste, Comte de Benyowsky, magnat des royaumes d'Hongrie et de Pologne containing his military operations in Poland, his exile in Kamtchatka, his escape and voyage across the Pacific Ocean, to Japan, Formosa, Canton in China, and details of the establishment he was commissioned by the French Ministry to form in Madagascar. A Paris, chez F. Buisson, 1791. 2 volumes in-8, [2] f., VIII-466 p. + [2] f., 486 p., antique havana raciné boards, red and anise titles and tomaisons on spine, gilt fillets, spines restored (foxing; traces of dust in margins). First edition in French of this curious account by M. A. Benyovszky, adventurer and traveler born in Hungary in 1741 and who died in Madagascar in 1786. (Chadenat, no. 518; Cordier, Sinica, 276 and Japonica, 453).