[Rarebooks] FS: 1782 Travels of Sonnerat: Philippines, China, etc. with 140 Full-Page Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

SONNERAT, M. (Pierre). VOYAGE AUX INDES ORIENTALES ET A LA CHINE, FAIT 
PAR ORDRE DU ROI, DEPUIS 1774 JUSQU'EN 1781: DANS LEQUEL ON TRAITE DES 
MOEURS, DE LA RELIGION, DES SCIENCES & DES ARTS DES INDIENS, DES 
CHINOIS, DES PÉGOUINS, & DES MADÉGASSES ; SUIVI D'OBSERVATIONS SUR LE 
CAP DE BONNE-ESPÉRANCE, LES ISLES DE FRANCE &C DE BOURBON, LES MALDIVES, 
CEYLAN, MALACCA, LES PHILIPPINES & LES MOLUQUES, & DE RECHERCHES SUR 
L'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE CES PAYS. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, Froule, Nyon, 
Barrois, le jeune, 1782. First Edition. Two quarto (/8" x 10-1/4") 
volumes bound in contemporary gilt-ruled calf leather sympathetically 
rebacked preserving the gilt-decorated spines with morocco spine 
labels;[iii] - [xvi], 317, [1]; [x], v - viii, 298 pages with the list 
of subscribers bound in volume 2 following the title page, half titles 
lacking. Illustrated with 140 full-page engravings, including several 
double page, of native life and natural history engraved by Poisson from 
drawings by Sonnerat. The author traveled to the Maldives, Ceylon, the 
Philippines, China, Burma, Madagascar, the Cape of Good Hope and 
elsewhere. A much less desirable octavo edition was published in the 
same year. Armorial bookplate of W. W. Rockhill on front pastedowns. 
Scattered light foxing, a few plates and leaves toned. Near Fine.

Brunet V, 442: "Pour la beaute des epreuves, cette edition est 
preferable a celle de 1806"; Cordier, Sinica II, 2102; Hill 1608: a 
"celebrated classic of natural history exploration and discoveries in 
the Far East"; Nissen IVB 886; Pritzel 8774; Wood 577; Zimmer 597. 
(#017258)        $5,000.00

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