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CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de (1682-1761). Histoire du Japon ... nouvelle édition . Paris: Rollin, 1754. 6 volumes, 12° (166 x 94mm). Half-titles, 55 engraved plates and maps only (of 56), many folding. (Vol. I: map of Japan with multiple tears along folds, another plate with long clean tear, shorter tears to some others, a few letters of sub-title faded, C1 cleanly torn, H6 with internal tear at inner margin. Vol. II: one plate repaired on verso. Vol. IV: marginal ink stains to quire D. Vol. V: C12 with rust stain. Vol. VI: botanical plates browned at margins.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, red edges (rubbed and chipped, corners worn). Provenance : Mehmet Sefik E. Atabey.
CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de (1682-1761). Histoire du Japon ... nouvelle édition . Paris: Rollin, 1754. 6 volumes, 12° (166 x 94mm). Half-titles, 55 engraved plates and maps only (of 56), many folding. (Vol. I: map of Japan with multiple tears along folds, another plate with long clean tear, shorter tears to some others, a few letters of sub-title faded, C1 cleanly torn, H6 with internal tear at inner margin. Vol. II: one plate repaired on verso. Vol. IV: marginal ink stains to quire D. Vol. V: C12 with rust stain. Vol. VI: botanical plates browned at margins.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, red edges (rubbed and chipped, corners worn). Provenance : Mehmet Sefik E. Atabey. This edition contains additions, and in Brunet's view is arranged in better order than the first edition of 1736. Brunet I, 1806; Cordier Japonica 423. (6)