LA MOTRAYE, Aubry de. - Lot 37

LA MOTRAYE, Aubry de. Travels of SR. A. de La Motraye en Europe, Asie, & Afrique... A La Haye, chez T. Johnson & J. W. Van Duren, 1727. 2 small folio volumes. Contemporary speckled fawn basane, 6-rib spine, title and greevel pieces, richly ornamented caissons, speckled edges (spines split, restorations). First French edition of this work by Aubry de La Motraye. Relation of twenty-six years of peregrinations through Europe, Scandinavia, Tartary and the Ottoman Empire by the French Protestant Aubry de La Motraye (1674-1743), a close friend of the Swedish King Charles XII. The illustration consists of a copper-engraved frontispiece in black after B. Picart, dated 1716, repeated in both volumes, and 51 black copper-engraved plates, including 4 folding maps.