Édouard Charton - Le Tour du Monde - 1893-1895

Charton, Édouard (edited by); Collective Le Tour du Monde. Nouveau Journal Des Voyages – 3 complete years: 1893, 1895, 1896 Librairie Hachette, 1- 1893. 2 works of 411 and 443 pages. In-4, half black morocco binding, 31 cm by 22.5. Spine with 5 raised bands with embossing, title and years in gold. Very good condition. Contents include: Voyages to the three Guianas by Verschuur, The Island of Curaçao by the same, Voyage in Tunisia by Cagnat, Excursion to Olympia by Normand, To Venezuela by Ribérat, The Isles of the Channel by Boland, Saigon by Barrelon, The Katanga Expedition from notes of Christian de Bonchamps by René de Pont-Jest, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen by Charles Rabot, The Maistre Mission (from the Congo to the Niger across Central America) by C. Maistre, Across Tuscany by Muntz, Porto-Rico by Claine. Among the illustrators: Lancelot, Riou, Berteault, Slom, Boudier, Paule Crampel, Courboin, Marius Perret. 2- 1895 in 1 complete volume 630 pages, half-cuir binding, smooth spine with piece of title and year, gilt lettering. Good condition, one corner heavily rubbed, scratches on the leather, a small paper loss at the corners of 3 leaves. Contents include: In Southern Australia by Eugène Girardin, The Imperial Residences in Crimea by Louis de Soudak, Across the Salzkammergut by Marguillier, Voyage to the Land of oués (Dahomey-Benin) by D’Albéca, Sicily by Gaston Vuillier, Voyage to the Dead Cities of Crimea by De Soudak, My Mission among the Tuareg Azdjer by Foureau, Voyage to the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse by the Abbé Le Camus, In Bordeaux by Schrader, In Scotland by Marie Anne de Bovet, A Summer in Greenland by Garde, In search of the Negritos (sic) by Lapicque, In Upper Gambia by Rançon, The Lakes of Bavaria by Servières, Davos by Bernac. 3- 1896 in 1 complete volume 635 and 421 pp (across the world). Half leather binding with corners, spine with 5 nerves (bands) with title, year and gilded stamps. Very good condition, corners slightly rounded. From the Sangha to the Wom, reconnaissance in the Chad basin by M. Clozel - In search of the Negritos by L. Lapicque - A Winter in Corfu - An expedition with the Negus Menelik, twenty months in Abyssinia by J. Gaston Vanderheym - Across Herzegovina by G. Capus - The Magyars at the time of the Millennium Exhibition... The last mission of Dutreuil de Rhins to Turkestan and Tibet by F. Grenard... Followed by the year’s issues of the supplement “Across the World”.

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