Relations de voyages en Orient : de 1830 à 1838

Creator
Aucher-Éloy, Pierre Martin Rémi, 1793-1838
Jaubert, Pierre-Amédée, chevalier, 1779-1847
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret
Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania)
Form
books
publishers' advertisements
Date
1843
Language
French
Subject
Natural history
Natural history -- Middle East
Geographic Subject
Middle East -- Description and travel
Middle East
Turkey -- Description and travel
Turkey
Iran -- Description and travel
Iran
Egypt -- Description and travel
Egypt
Palestine -- Description and travel
Extent
2 volumes : folded map ; 21 cm
Publisher
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret
Related Place
France -- Paris.
Notes
Vol. 1, "première partie" (xxxi, 364 p.), and v. 2, "seconde partie" ([365]-775, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates), have continuous pagination, with an explanatory note on the verso of the title page of v. 1 that reads: "Nota. Les deux parties de l'ouvrage ayant une même pagination, peuvent être reliées en un seul volume."
"Carte pour la lecture des Relations de voyages d'Aucher-Eloy en Orient. De 1830 a 1838. dressée d'après les indications de Mr. le Cte. Jaubert. par Mr. Fauchet, dessinateur au Ministère des Travaux Publies." (folded plate following p. 772 of vol. 2) signed "gravé par P. A. Thuillier" and "ecrit par H. Martín".
Errata on p. [2] at end of vol. 2.
"Notice sur la vie et les travaux d'Aucher-Éloy": vol. 1, p. [v]-xxxi.
Advertisements for the "Librairie encyclopédique de Roret" on verso of half-title page of vol. 1 and p. [3]-[7] at end of vol. 2, and on back covers of both volumes.
Holy Land Collections copy has the bookplate of Paola and Bertrand Lazard on the front paste-down endpapers of vol. 1 & 2.
Holy Land Collections copy has a bookplate with a woodcut owl and the initials "J E" on the front paste-down endpapers of vols. 1 & 2.
Holy Land Collections copy purchased for the Penn Libraries at the Pierre Bergé & associés auction held on April 29, 2008.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zs2m08p
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, DS48 .A83 1843
Provenance
Lazard, Bertrand (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)
Lazard, Paola (bookplate) (former owner) (Holy Land Collections copy)
E., J. (bookplate) (Holy Land Collections copy)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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