Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,

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contenant une description succincte des pays qu ils habitent ; un aperçu des moeurs, coutumes, religions et lois monumens et antiquités notices biographiques littérature, industrie, commerce, etc. Dédié à madame la comtesse de Ségur. Paris : Alexis Eymery, 1814. Six volumes, 32mo (135 x 90 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of mottled calf, spines with gilt decoration and contrasting leather title- and volume-pieces stamped in gilt (Vol. 1 has some scuff marks to upper board and spine, otherwise the bindings are only lightly rubbed and in excellent condition); original marbled endpapers; Vol. 1 half-title leaf, frontispiece plate, title-leaf, pp. 172, with a large folding mappe-monde and 8 plates; Vol. 2 half-title leaf, title-leaf, pp. 176, with 6 plates; Vol. 3 half-title leaf, title-leaf, pp. 216, with 8 plates; Vol. 4 half-title leaf, title-leaf, pp. 208, with 8 plates; Vol. 5 half-title leaf, title-leaf, pp. 259, with 9 plates; Vol. 6 half-title leaf, title-leaf, pp. 214, with 9 plates; text in French; an attractive set in fine condition throughout. Collated and complete. Madame Dufrénoy s encyclopaedic work treats juvenile readers to a potted history and geography of the peoples of the world, as they were understood around the turn of the nineteenth century. The last volume has a 68-page section on Oceania, covering the Malay Archipelago, Australasia (New Guinea, New Holland, Van Diemen s Land, New Britain, New Zealand), and Polynesia (Marianas, Carolines, Sandwich Isla

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