Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

240 c BOUGUER, JEAN. Traité Complet de la Navigation. 8 folding engraved plates, including 2 constellation charts; 3 folding maps, including one of the North Atlantic showing Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. [10], 224 pages, including etched additional title. 4to, 232x182 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends rubbed, cover corner worn, few tiny holes in front cover, modern calf; isolated minor foxing or spotting. Bookplate of Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 56). first edition . Paris & Nantes: (Gilles Paulus Du Mesnil for) P. de Heugueville and the author, 1698 [800/1,200] 241 c CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM, the Elder; et al. De rebus Turcicis commentarii duo accuratissimi. 143, [1] pages. Folio, 305x210 mm, modern ¼ calf with morocco lettering piece; contents lightly toned with scattered minor spotting. Frankfurt am Main: heirs of Andreas Wechel et al., 1598 [500/750] first edition of a collection of writings on Ottoman history and rulers by Camerarius and arguments for war against the Turks by François de la Noue and Johannes Cuspinianus. 242 c CHABERT, JOSEPH-BERNARD. Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l’Amérique Septentrionale. 6 folding engraved maps; folding plate; folding letterpress table. [12], viii, 288 pages. 4to, 250x197 mm, contemporary calf, edges worn, rebacked, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal toning and soiling, light dampstain in upper outer corner of last several leaves. Bookplate of Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 99) Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1753 [800/1,200] first edition of a journal of the author’s coastal surveying expedition to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, and Newfoundland. Lande 114; Staton & Tremaine 222. 240 241

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