- Lot 288

[NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA] Gemelli CARERI / LA HARPE / PRÉVOST / RAYNAL / ROLLIN - Lot of 12 incomplete volumes related to Mexico or South America. - Gemelli CARERI - Voyage around the world. Translated from the Italian by M. L. N.... Volume VI [only]: Of New Spain. [Mexico]. Paris, Étienne Ganeau, 1727. 170 x 95 mm. [8], 528 pp. Illustrated with 17 engravings including 2 folding plates. Contemporary blond speckled calf, spine with five raised bands, title and greeves (pale ring of wetness affecting the upper margin). - LA HARPE - Abrégé de l'Histoire générale des voyages... Volume eleven [alone]. [Mexico]. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1780. 4], 503 pp. 3 engravings out of text, 2 of them folding. contemporary blond calf, spine with five raised bands, title and greefs (upper cover damaged, marginal attack of rodent on pp.135-168). - Antoine François PRÉVOST] - Histoire generale des voïages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations ... enrichi de cartes geographiques... de plans et de perspectives, de figures d'animaux, de végétaux, habits, antiquités, &c. Volume XII [alone]. Paris, Didot, 1754. In-4, 255 x 195 mm, xx, 659 pp. 13 maps and plans, 16 engravings out of text. Contemporary speckled brown calf, spine with five raised bands, title and greeves (upper spine split, lower spine split over qqs cm). - Antoine François PRÉVOST] - Histoire generale des voïages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations ... enrichi de cartes geographiques... de plans et de perspectives, de figures d'animaux, de végétaux, habits, antiquités, &c. Volume XIII [alone]. Paris, Didot, 1756. 250 x 195 mm, vi, [2], 658 pp. 13 maps and 11 (out of 12) engravings out of text (lacks the pL of the marriage of the Incas). Contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, title and greeves (binding in poor condition, ring of wetness, some browning and/or foxing). - Antoine François PRÉVOST] - Histoire generale des voïages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations ... enriched with geographic maps and figures. Volume XLVIII [alone] [Continuation of the description of the new Spain : Mexico]. Paris, Didot, 1754. 170 x 95 mm. [4], 392, [2] pp. 14 engravings out of text, 6 of them folding. Contemporary blond calf, five-ribbed spine, title-piece (tomatillo scratched). Provenance : ex-libris of the library of baron Zangiacomi. - Guillaume-Thomas RAYNAL] - Philosophical and political history of the establishment and trade of Europeans in the two Indies. Volume I [-VI]. Amsterdam, s.n., 1773. 6 volumes in-12, 170 x 95 mm, contemporary basane, spine ribbed with fleurons, title and greefs (worn bindings, 1 title page detached, 1 false-title missing, map of the general planisphere detached). 1 map detached in T. I, 5 maps in T. VI. - ROLLIN - Modern history of the Chinese, Japanese, Indians... Volume XIV [only] containing the continuation of the history of the Americans. [South America]. Paris, widow Desaint, 1775. 624 pp. Forms volume III of the History of the Americans. Contemporary blond calf, five-ribbed spine, title and greeves, edges grained. Provenance labels: François Belland. Alphonse Dossat. TOGETHER 12 VOLUMES, VARIOUS CONDITIONS.