ANVILLE, J.-B. Bourguignon d' or DANVILLE. - Lot 6

ANVILLE, J.-B. Bourguignon d' or DANVILLE. Set of three works by d'Anville in first editions, similarly bound, on the Orient and its history, the fruit of the serious research and work of the King's first geographer under Louis XV. 3 volumes in-4. Contemporary fawn half-basin with ivory vellum corners, smooth spine with gilt title, gilt roulette and fillet, speckled edges (spines and elbows rubbed, brown spots, without maps). -Mémoires sur l'Egypte ancienne et moderne suivi d'une description du Golfe arabique ou de la mer rouge. Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1766. -States formed in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1771. -Antiquité géographique de l'Inde et d'autres contrées de la Haute Asie. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1775.