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Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763
Schmidt, G. F. (Georg Friedrich), 1712-1775
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790
Chedel, Pierre Quentin, 1705-1763
Haussard, Elisabeth
Didot, François, 1689-1757
Simon, Claude, d. 1752
Title
Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues : contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile et de mieux averé dans les pays ou les voyageurs ont penetré : touchant leur situation, leur étendue, leurs limites, leurs divisions, leur climat, leur terroir, leurs productions, leurs lacs, leurs rivieres, leurs montagnes, leurs mines, leurs cités & leurs principales villes, leurs ports, leurs rades, leurs edifices, &c. : avec les moeurs et les usages des habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, leurs arts et leurs sciences, leur commerce et leurs manufactures : pour former un systéme complet d'histoire et de geographie moderne, qui representera l'état actuel de toutes les nations : enrichi de cartes géographiques nouvellement composées sur les observations les plus autentiques, de plans et de perspectives, de figures d'animaux, de végétaux, habits, antiquités, &c. : tome premier[-vingtième]
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Volume 17
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A Paris : Chez Didot ...
Description
Vols. 1-7 translated and adapted by Prévost from: A new general collection of voyages and travels (London : T. Astley, 1745-1747). Vols. 8-15 compiled by Prévost. Vol. 16 is index of v. 1-15. Vol. 17, dealing with Dutch East Indies, published in Amsterdam, 1761. Work continued by A.G. Meusnier de Querlon and J.P. Rousselot de Surgy. See Sabin
Imprints vary: v. 15-16, Chez la veuve Didot; v. 17, A Amsterdam, chez Arkstée et Merkus; v. 18, A Paris, chez Rozet; v. 19, Chez Panckoucke; v. 20, Chez Maradan
Printers: v. 1-9, De l'imprimerie de Claude Simon; v. 10-11, De l'imprimerie de la veuve de Claude Simon; v. 12-15, De l'imprimerie de Didot; v. 18, De l'imprimerie de Le Breton; v. 19, Chez Gueffier
Engraved frontispiece port. of Prévost by G.F. Schmidt, v. 1. Draughtsmen and engravers of ill. include Charles Cochin fils, Pierre Chedel, Elizabeth Haussard
Multiple errata statements
Sabin
Binding: mottled sheepskin. Spines gilt tooled, with title and vol. no. on two labels. Edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges red. Green silk place markers. Vol. 20 in mottled calfskin. MS annotations on endpapers of v. 1, including pagination and plate counts for all vols. on recto of frontispiece
Ownership inscription on t.p. of v. 10 of Gressent, senator of Rouen; cf. Jean Louis Aimé Gressent, 1746-1815, jurist (N. Oursel, Nouvelle biographie normande). The defaced 18th-century bookplates that appear in v. 1-19 are apparently his. Vol. 20 has later bookplate of de Fortia

Subjects: Voyages and travels
Language French
Publication date 1746
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IA Collections: getty; americana
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histoiregenerale17prev
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Authority file  OCLC: 1045998734
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Internet Archive identifier: histoiregenerale17prev
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