Dumont d'Urville

Beautiful four-volume illustrated set of this edition, which sits within the great tradition of exploration, geography, and discovery narratives that have profoundly shaped 19th-century scientific culture - This collection aims to introduce readers to the different regions of the world through explorers’ journeys, navigators’ observations, descriptions of territories, and testimonies gathered from contact with diverse populations and societies - At a time when advances in navigation, cartography, and natural sciences contribute to a substantial broadening of knowledge about the planet, books devoted to travel play an essential role in disseminating geographical, ethnographic, historical, and scientific information to a cultivated public - Dumont d'Urville, Alcide d'Orbigny, Eyries & A. Jacobs - General History of Voyages - 1859 - Volume I, II, III and IV - Furne et Cie - Volume I: 550 pages. Volume II: 542 pages. Volume III: 612 pages. Volume IV: 692 pages. Good condition of the bindings, volumes in their original half-leather, boards of calf leather, slight signs of wear, minor defects on the covers, gilded edges, finely decorated spine with raised bands, gilded titles and tomes, blind-stamped rules on the boards - Good interior condition, some markings, volumes enriched with numerous engravings in black outside the text, including a folding map of the Tartes islands, clean text, endpapers in good condition, a fine copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -

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