ANTIQUITÉ GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L'INDE [with] MEMOIRE DUR LA MER CASPIENNE [with] L'EUPHRATE ET LE TIGRE [three parts in one]
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1775, 1777, 1779. First Editions. Quarto, xii, 238, xi, [3], 18, 148, xii pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full contemporary brown leather with gilt lettering on red label. Paneled spine with gilt decoration. Three parts bound as one. Scuffing to leather boards. Cracking to leather on spine, with top layer of leather missing from tail. Splitting to hinges. Headband split in half but intact. Edges of textblock dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Tail pieces to denote ends of sections. Features five fold-out maps, Antiquité Geographique de L'Inde with three and L'Euphrate et le Tigre and Memoire dur la Mer Caspienne with one each. l'Euphrate without the supplement on Basra. Age-toning and light, scattered foxing to interior pages. Text in French. Signature of previous owner on title page, with ink listing of titles on second free endpaper and verso of title page. Shelved in Case 9. More