Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte.. English
Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney (1757-1820)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3222865.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition.. v.2, plates :. maps ;. 8vo. Ink "701" on endpaper. Provenance: inscribed on endpaper "John Custance 1799". Provenance: eighteenth-century Chippendale-style armorial bookplate, demi-eagle displ. gu. on the breast with a star of six points, motto: Appetitus rationi pareat [i.e. Custance, of Weston House, Norfolk]. Binding: late eighteenth-century tree calf, sewn onto recessed bands; gold-tooled on spine; yellow-stained edges; black spine labels: Volney's Travels in Egypt; volume labels.
Makers and roles
Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney (1757-1820)