Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques. Résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Dutertre, Labat, Stedman, La Condamine, Ulloa, Humboldt, Hamilton, Cochrane, Mawe, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Max. de Neuwied, Spix et Martius, Rengger et Longchamp, Azara, Fresier, Molina, Miers, Poeppig, Antonio del Rio, Beltrami, Pike, Long, Adair, Chastellux, Bartram, Collot, Lewis et Clarke, Bradbury, Ellis, McKenzie, Franklin, Parry, Back, Phipps, etc., etc.
Paris: Chez L. Tenré... et Chez Henri Dupuy, 1836. xvi, 568 pp., [135 lvs of plates]. Illus. with 268 copperplate and steel engravings and two large folding maps. 4to. Modern dark green polished calf, five raised bands ruled in gilt, two compartments red, lettered in gilt, four decorated in gilt, edges beveled, new end-papers, silk book mark sewn in. First edition. Julien Léopold Boilly, M. de Sainson, (Louis Auguste), illustrators; Desbuissons, engraver. A very handsome copy, contents very good or better, foxing to frontis and title, scattered to contents, maps worn at edges and folds with some repairs, in a fine modern binding. Palau 202179. Sabin 57458, Field 447. Borba de Moraes, p. 631. Item #42897
Compiled by Orbigny from the numerous authors listed in the title; with 268 engravings, usually two to the page, and with more than half illustrative "of some phase in the life, customs, and history of the numerous tribes of Indians of South America and Mexico," (Field, Indian Bibliography).
Price: $600.00