Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, pendant les Annees 1783, 1784, et 1785...

Paris, 1787. 1st ed. in octavo. Hardcover. Fair. 2 vols. 2 folding maps, plan, and 2 folding plates, ix, [10]-14, [2], 383, 6, [2], 458, [4]p. Mismatched bindings (Vol. 1 in a modern Greek quarterbinding; Vol. 2 in worn old leather. 20cm. Circular "Hoyt Public Library" stamp at base of both title-pages. Vol. 1 [Tome Premier] is sound and attractive with both maps still crisp and unworn. Vol. 2 [Tome Seconde] is quite worn (binding heavily worn; joints splitting; the folding plate of the Temple at Baalbek is split at one of the folds and has remnants of yellowed tape along that fold to repair the split; Binding is almost completely split between pages 222 and 223. French text. The half-titles were not preserved in these volumes but this set is otherwise complete. This first edition was also published in a seldom seen, larger format (about 26cm.) quarto edition.