Abbé PREVOST (Antoine-François). - Lot 56

Abbé PREVOST (Antoine-François). Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelles collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiés jusqu'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues... A Paris, chez Didot, 1746-1757 (T. I-XIV) / La Veuve Didot, 1759 (T. XV). 15 volumes in-4. Contemporary speckled fawn basane, ribbed spines, blond or red title-pieces, richly ornamented caissons, red edges, homogeneous but not identical bindings (binding defects including rubbing, dull corners, missing headpieces, some cracked jaws, browning, marginal defects, some leaves unbound in a few volumes including plates, tears not serious, small oxidation losses at the folds of the map of Siam in t.9, dampstaining t.10, large section of map torn off opposite p. 92 of t.15). First 15 volumes of this work illustrated with 493 copper-engraved plates in black, including a large number of maps and plans. Volume I. [1] f. (title), XVII-[1]-XIV-563-[4] pp. 30 plates including a frontispiece and 18 maps and plans. Vol. II. VIII-654 pp, [1] f. (notice de rel.), 52 plates (including 28 maps and plans). Vol. III. VIII-638 pp. 22 plates. Vol. IV. [2] ff. (title and title fx.), 648 pp. with pp. 573*-584* between pp. 572 and 573 (pagination error, p. 57 numbered 53 and repeated to end), [1] f. (rel. notice), 52 plates (including 16 maps and plans and 12 supp. plates from t.III bound after page 648). Vol. V. VIII-564 pp, [1] f. (rel. notice), 63 plates (including 23 maps and plans and 6 supp. plates for vol. IV (5 plates announced in the notice). Vol. VI. [1] f. (title fx.), X-608 pp. 45 plates (including 10 maps and plans). Volume VII. [2] ff. (fx. title and title), 624 pp, [1] f. (notice rel.), 21 plates (of 25). Vol. VIII. [4] ff. (fx. title, title, warn. and rel. notice), 65 pp. 26 plates (including 14 maps and plans). Vol. IX. [4] ff. (fx. title, title warn. and table), 646 pp., [1] f. (notice to rel.), 26 plates (including 10 maps and plans). Vol. X. VI-2*-688 pp, [2] ff (table and notice to binders), 25 plates (including 8 maps and plans). Vol. XI. [1] f. (title), II-722 pp, [2] ff (table and notice to binder), 24 plates (including 11 maps and plans). Vol. XII. XX-659-[1] pp. 28 plates (including 15 maps and plans). Vol. XIII. VI-[1]-658 pp, [1] f. (notice to binder), 23 plates (of 25).Vol. XIV. VIII-763-[1] pp. 29 plates (including 19 maps and plans). Volume XV. VII-[1]-728 pp. 27 plates (of 28; large section torn from map opposite p. 92).