Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 325
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
FLEURIAU D'ARMENONVILLE, THOMAS-CHARLES, S.J. Nouveaux Mémoires des Missions de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le Levant. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 9). Folding engraved plate of Santorini in first volume; 5 plates and folding map of Egypt in second. [2], 173, [3]; [4], 125, [3] pages. Together, 2 volumes. 12mo, 156x92 mm, contemporary vellum boards with leather lettering pieces, recased, endpapers renewed; scattered minor foxing, dark stains on last few leaves in Volume 2. Paris: (widow of Antoine Lambin for) Nicolas Le Clerc, 1715-17

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first edition of a collection of reports of Jesuit missions to the Levant. The first 2 volumes deal with Crimea, Greece, and Egypt.