Voyages.- de la Harpe (Jean-François) Abrégé de L'Histoire Générale des Voyages, 23 vol. only (of 45), half-titles, 88 engraved plates (17 folding), one large folding table, vol. 22 lacking map, I3 vol. 1 & Y3 vol. 3 with small marginal loss, H8 vol. 3 with small marginal hole, O2 vol. 9 with short marginal tears just touching text, Z8 vol. 13 with paper defect at gutter, E2 vol. 22 lacking lower corner, very occasional faint spotting and soiling, abrasion marks to front pastedowns where label removed, contemporary calf, occasional worming, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, Paris, 1780-86.
⁂ The first 21 volumes of this work were published together in 1780, with the subsequent volumes published between 1786 and 1804. The first of the additional volumes (22 & 23), including within this lot concentrate on the voyages of Captain Cook.
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