CHARLEVOIX (Pierre-François-Xavier de). Histoire et descript - Lot 87

CHARLEVOIX (Pierre-François-Xavier de). Histoire et description générale de la nouvelle France avec le journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique septentrionale. Paris, Didot, 1744. 6 volumes in-12, first edition in this format, published the same year as the original edition in in-4 format, illustrated with 28 folding maps engraved by Nicolas Bellin, and 44 folding engraved botanical plates. Bound in contemporary full marbled calf, 5-ribbed spine, red morocco title-piece. Ex-libris Bibliothèque de M. le Comte d'Espinchal, ex-libris of his library in Massiac, and stamp Collection Henri Debard. Label of Fournier, bookshop and bookbinder, "A la chercheuse d'esprit", rue Satory, Versailles. (slight snags to the headpieces, a few pencil marks to the endpapers of the first volume, upper endpaper of the second volume glued and torn, small tears but not missing to the maps).