184 [Travels]. Set of 8 books, in average condition, as desc - Lot 184

184 [Travels]. Set of 8 books, in average condition, as described, two of which incomplete. - BORY DE SAINT VINCENT (Jean-Baptiste Genevieve Marcellin). Guide du voyageur en Espagne. Paris, Janet, 1823. In-8, 666 p. Half brown basane, smooth spine decorated and titled. One large folding map with enhanced contours. - BLOMBERG (Karl-Johann von). Description of Livonia. Utrecht, Guillaume van Poolsum, 1705. In-12, fr, [8] p., 394 p. ill. with frontispiece portrait and folding map. Brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated. First edition. Binding worn with lack of leather, corners very dull, headpieces missing, lack of leather at top of head box. - VOLNEY (Constantin-Fr. de Chasseboeuf de). Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte pendant les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris, chez Dugour et Durand, an VII (1798). 2 vol. in-8, [3] f., x p., 478 p. ; [2] f., 452 p., contemporary half-brown marbled basane, smooth spine decorated, red title and black gutter. Uncommon third edition, revised and enlarged by the author. Illustrated with copper-engraved folding plates, 3 maps, 1 plan and 4 views. Binding rubbed, notably on the boards, corners dulled, dampstaining in the lower part of volume 2. - FORBIN ((Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de). Voyage dans le Levant en 1817-1818. Paris, Imp. Royale, 1819. In-8, [6] f., 460 p. ill. with one folding plate, contemporary half-brown basane, smooth spine decorated, red mar. title. Complete with folding plan of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Binding worn, cuts and corners dulled. Tear (consolidated on reverse), foxing and wetness on fold-out plate. - ZORGDRAGER (Cornelis Gijsbertsz), RESTE (Bernard de, trans.). Histoire des pêches, des découvertes et des établissemens des Hollandois dans les mers du Nord. Paris, Vve Nyon, an IX [1800/1801]. 3 volumes in-8, contemporary half-fauwn basane, smooth spine decorated, red and green morocco title-pieces. One folded frontispiece and 27 other engraved plates, most of them folding, including maps, scenes, animals and peoples of the north. Worn binding, leather missing from upper jaws of vols. 2 and 3. Mottling at bottom of 3 vols. - LONG (John). Voyages chez différentes nations sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale ; renfermant des détails curieux sur les mœurs, usages, cérémonies religieuses, le système militaire, &c. des Changas, des Indiens des Cinq et Six nations, Mohawks, Connecedagas, Iroquois, &c. des Indiens Chippewas, & autres sauvages de diverses tribus ; sur leurs langues, les pays qu'ils habitent, ainsi que sur le commerce de pelletes et fourrures qui se fait chez ces peuples. Paris, Prault, Fuchs, II year of the Republican Era (1794). In-8, [2] f., xxxvi, 320 pages ill. with folding map. Bound in contemporary half-tan basane, smooth spine decorated, red marbled title page. First French edition of this work. Smudging on the lower outer corner of the introductory leaves. Binding rubbed, 1 cm split at top edge. - ORLOFF (Grigori Vladimirovitch), Voyage dans une partie de la France, ou lettres descriptives et historiques adressées à Mme La Comtesse Sophie de Strogonoff. Paris, Bossange père & frères, 1824. 2 vol. in-8 (of 3), 407 and 447 p., contemporary half-brown basane, smooth spine decorated, pink title-pieces. The first volume evokes Orléans Tours, the banks of the Loire and its châteaux, then focuses on Bordeaux and the surrounding region. The second volume celebrates the Pyrenees. - LEGUAT (François). Voyage et avantures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons en deux isles desertes des Indes Orientales. Avec la relation des choses les plus remarquables qu'ils ont observées dans l'Isle Maurice, à Batavia, au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans l'Isle St. Helene, et en d'autres endroits de leur route. London [Rouen], David Mortier, [1721]. 1 vol. in-12 (of 2), 180 p. plus table of contents pages. Later but early binding in reused vellum, trimmed short at bottom margin, illus. with 8 plates including one map. Mottling at bottom. Second volume only.