A.-G. CAMUS. Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits - Lot 40

A.-G. CAMUS. Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot. Paris, Baudouin, An XI (1802). In-4, marbled half-calf with green vellum corners, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). Brunet, I-1529 / VI-20078 /// (2f.)-III-401-(1f.) // (2f.)-122. Following, by the same author: Rapport à l'Institut national... d'un voyage fait à la fin de l'An X, dans les départements du Bas Rhin, de la rive gauche de ce fleuve, de la Belgique, du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Somme. Ibid, id, An XI. These are departments recently attached to France. ORIGINAL EDITIONS of the first work, which is a critical bibliography of the collections of travels by Théodore de Bry and Melchisedech Thevenot (1620-1692), and of the second work, which is a report on the state of human knowledge other than agriculture in the departments cited. Beginning of split at one hinge and missing spine.