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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas (1713–1796). Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Establissmens et de Commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes. Geneva: Jean–Leonard Pellet, 1781.
10 volumes, 8vo. (Browning and spotting throughout). Half–titles, engraved frontispieces (some offsetting from plates to title–pages). Early half calf, marbled sides, spines gilt. Provenance: P.P. Mayer (early ownership signature on half–titles).
SECOND EDITION, without the atlas as usual as it was sold separately. First published in 1771, this new edition “offers some interesting articles, which had been given to the author on the English and Dutch colonies and on China, during a trip that he had previously taken to Holland and to England. These documents on the Spanish possessions had also been communicated to him.” (Joseph–Marie Quérard).