Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(TRAVEL -- CIRCUMNAVIGATION.) Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, Baron de Bougainville. Album Pittoresque de la Fregate la Thetis et de la Corvette l'Esperance. Collection de Dessins Relatifs a Leur Voyage Autour du Monde en 1824, 1825, et 1826. Half-title, vignette title-page, 44 pages (with 7 half-page lithographed illustrations), 28 lithographed plates. Folio, 21x14 inches, attractive contemporary gilt morocco-backed marbled boards, corners sympathetically repaired; a very tidy copy with large untrimmed deckle-edge sheets, expertly conserved; bookplate of Ruben J. Dussaut. Paris: Bulla, 1828