Lot n° 194
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Constantin-François VOLNEY. - Lot 194
Constantin-François VOLNEY.
Oeuvres. Les Ruines ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires. - Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785, followed by Considérations sur la Guerre des Russes et des Turks, published in 1788 and 1789. - Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amérique. - Recherches nouvelles sur l'Histoire ancienne. - History lessons... History of Samuel, inventor of the Sacre des Rois. Physical state of Corsica. - The European Alfabet applied to Asian languages. Simplification of oriental languages. Simplified Hebrew.
Paris, Parmantier, 1826-1825, 8 volumes in-8 bound in half-basane, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, fleurons and roulettes. A fine copy.
Frontispiece portrait and 37 engraved hors-texte plates, most of them folding: views, maps including those of Corsica, Egypt, Syria and two of the United States, and tables; scattered foxing.
Provenance: Isaac Norris Library (heraldic ex-libris).
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