Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes

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Author: Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François (1713-1796) Year: 1775-1780 Publisher: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour Place: Maastrich Description: 8 volumes and atlas. viii+437+3 pages with two frontispieces and index; x+316 pages with frontispiece and index; xii+440 pages with frontispiece and index; viii+308 pages with frontispiece and index; xi+296 with frontispiece, folding map and index; viii+287 pages with frontispiece and index; viii+326 pages with frontispiece and index. With Etat civil, politique et commercant du Bengale; ou histoire des conquetes de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays. Pour servir de suite a l'histoire philosophique politique by William Bolts (1740?-1808) 2 volumes in 1. xxxii+166 pages with frontispiece; 170 pages with frontispiece and index. Atlas 50 engraved maps by Rigobert Bonne, 49 of which double-page and 1 folding, numbered 1-49, and 17 bis, 23 letterpress tables, some of which folding. Period mottled calf, flat spines in six (text) and seven (atlas) compartments, red and brown lettering pieces in the second and fourth, others with repeat decoration in gilt. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in full leather with gilt decoration and lettering to spine and gilt ruled edges with ribbon markers. Atlas Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine over marble. First published in 1770 (Amsterdam). Guillaume Thomas Raynal was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. In his Histoire philo

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