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KNOX, John

Voyage dans les montagnes de l'Ecosse et dans les isles Hebrides, fait en 1786. Traduit de l'anglois
Paris
Defer de Maisonneuve
1790
€120 - €180

2 vol. in-8vo, [4]-4 12, [4]-392 pp, ill. with 3 steelengr. pl. by Skelton son depicting Fingal's cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa. Bound between pp. 232-233 (2nd vol.). Minor spotting, sm. blue stains on pp. 352-353 (second vol.), somewhat dampstaining. Otherwise good set. Later half green calf, marbled paper on covers (sl. rubbed), gilt flat spines, yellow edges

Ref. Cox III, pp. 33-34. First French translation by Theophile Mandar (1759-1823) of Knox' s (1720-1790) "A tour through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles", first publ. in 1786. Ex libris D. Laport

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