Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY). Renneville, René-Augustin-Constantin de, editor. Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi à l'Établissement et aux Progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces Unies des Pais-Bas . . . Nouvelle Édition revûe par l'Auteur & considerablement augmentée. Volumes 1-10 (of 12); lacks the supplementary 2-volume Voyage de Gautier Schouten aux Indes Orientales. Engraved additional title in Volumes 1-3, 5, 7, and 9, not present in the others; 31 (of 32?) plates; 28 (of ?) maps. Together, 10 volumes. 12mo, later 19th-century 1/2 green calf with red morocco lettering pieces, some spine ends worn; occasional light foxing and marginal dampstaining. Booklabel of the Paris bookseller Charles Chadenat. Rouen: Jean-Baptiste Machuel the Younger, 1725

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Originally published in 1702-06, an enlarged French adaptation of Isaac Commelin's mid-17th-century Dutch-language collection of voyages and travels undertaken for the Dutch East India Company. Alden 725/166; Landwehr VOC 254.