Voyage Pittoresque dans les Deux Ameriques
Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Ameriques : resume general de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Dutertre, Labat, Stedman, La Condamine, Ulloa, Humboldt, Hamilton, Cochrane, Mawe, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Max. de Neuwied, Spix et Martius, Rengger et Longchamp, Azara, Fresier, Molina, Miers, Poeppig, Antonio del Rio, Beltrami, Pike, Long, Adair, Chastellux, Bartram, Collot, Lewis et Clarke, Bradbury, Ellis, McKenzie, Franklin, Parry, Back, Phipps, etc.
Alcide Dessalines d' Orbigny (Editor), Julien Léopold Boilly (Illustrator), Sainson (Illustrator), Desbuissons (Engraver)
L. Tenre, Paris, 1836
[Profusely illustrated] Folio, ; 28 cm. Bound in leather backed, boards. Shelf wear, scuffing to cover, with minor loss. Good binding. Clean, white pages. [2] xvi, 568 pages, 135 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits. Frontispiece includes illustrations of: Christopher Colombus, Guillaume Penn, Alexandre von Humboldt, and Alcide d'Orbigny. Plates engraved by Beyer and Julien Leopold Boilly. Maps on folded preliminary leaves engraved by Desbuissons. "Ecrite par Benard" appears on lower right corner of maps Early bookplate of L'abbe E.V. Collas Chanoine hon. re de Bourges.