Search Results: Travel and Exploration from Marc Sena Carrel

Tunisia: Alif - Les Éditions de la Méditeranée, 2000. Presumed First Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ce libre étant bilingue, árabe-français, et les deux écriteur n'ayant pas le même sens de lecture, la numérotation des pages débute avec la langue árabe. This is a bilingual book in French and Arabic. Presumed first edition. Printed in Tunisia in May 2000. Handsome color, full-pictorial wrappers. 9.5 x 7 inches. With 139 numbered pages and with numerous sepia-tone illustrations of old postcards depicting Bizerte, Tunisia, and environs. An immensely clean book. Light page waviness, minor. Probably read yet the pages are tight and the wrappers only fan somewhat. Rated a Very Good copy. Scarce in any condition.

London, England: Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1716. First Edition Thus . Full-Leather. Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This publicaton is entirely in Latin, not in English. Edited by Michael Maittaire. Later full morocco binding of a bay color tending towards burgundy, and with hubbed spine in six panels. Boards with gilt rules, small diaper-design borders in blind and with large diaper design in blind to the centers. Spine states, in fairly crisp gilt-stamped letters, "Auctores Classici Latini, Tom. XI, Curtius, Londini, M.DCC.XVI., Maittaire." Generally unbumped spine head and tail and with slightly bumped corners, The leather binding is exceptionally clean and free of scratches. The spine is lightly and evenly sunned. The text block is firmly bound in. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. With brown paper pastedowns and FEPs. T.E.G. and with fabulous gauffred edges in a diaper design. Frontispiece copper engraving of an idealized Alexander and his horse. With… Read More