TRAVELS. - Set of 16 volumes. - Lot 66

TRAVELS. - Set of 16 volumes. ARMAND (Friedrich-August Strubberg, dit). Mes Aventures en Amérique et chez les peaux-rouges. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1880. 2 volumes in-18, half brown basane with flowers; spines rubbed, one leaf detached (period binding). First edition of Adrien Paul's French translation of this work, originally published in German in 1858. Dr. Strubberg lived in the United States for over fifteen years. - AUGER (Édouard). Voyage en Californie [...]. 1852-1853. Paris, librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1854. In-16, paperback; cover worn, spine reinforced. First edition of this account inspired by a personal stay in California shortly after the gold rush. Autograph signed letter. - CHATEAUBRIAND (François-René de). Voyage en Amérique, moeurs, usages, coutumes des habitants ; descriptions, etc. À Bruxelles, s.n., 1844. 2 volumes in one in-24, half black threaded basane, rubbed headbands (period binding). - COMETTANT (Oscar). Three years in the United States. A study of American manners and customs. Paris, Pagnerre, 1858. In-18, threaded fawn half-calf; some spotting (contemporary binding). Second edition, "revised and corrected", published the year after the original. The author, pianist and composer, recounts his long tour of the United States from 1852 to 1855. - DE SMET (Pierre-Jean). Travels in North America. Oregon. Bruxelles, Mathieu Closson et Cie ; Paris, H. Repos et Cie, 1874. Large in-12, ornate black basane; some snags on boards, marginal wetness to frontispiece (Brisse-Sanzel. Amiens). Account of a visit made in 1846-1847 by this Jesuit Father, who spent long periods in the United States and Canada from the 1820s until his death in 1873. Metal-engraved portrait-frontispiece, two-tone lithographed fold-out map outside text. Provenance: Lycée jésuite La Providence d'Amiens (gilded iron on front cover). - DIXON (William Hepworth). The White Conquest. A Journey to the United States of America. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1877. Large in-8, ornate half-chagrin (period binding). First edition of the French translation of this work, originally published in English the previous year. 2 lithographed fold-out maps and numerous woodcuts in the text. - DIXON (William Hepworth). The New America. Paris, Librairie internationale, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1869. In-8, fawn half-basane, decorated (period binding). First edition of the French translation by Philarète Chasles (who added a preface and a biography of the author), of this story originally published in English in London in 1867. - FERRI PISANI (Camille). Letters on the United States of America. Paris, librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1862. In-18, paperback; some wetness. First edition. Correspondence documenting the voyage of Prince Napoléon (son of Jérôme Bonaparte, nephew of Napoléon I and first cousin of Napoléon III) and his wife Marie-Clotilde de Savoie, to North America from late July to late September 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel Pisani Ferri was on the trip as aide-de-camp to Prince Napoleon. - HURET (Jules). In America. From San Francisco to Canada. Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, Eugène Fasquelle, 1905. In-12, paperback, spine split and cover missing. - LEUBA (Edmond). California and the Pacific States. Souvenirs and impressions. Paris, Librairie Sandoz et Thuillier; Neuchâtel, Librairie Jules Sandoz; Genève, Librairie Desrogis, 1882. In-16, black cloth; worn binding, restoration to false title. First edition. Old Parisian school library stamp. - MANDAT-GRANCEY (Edmond de). La Brèche aux buffles. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1889. In-18, blue-green half-percaline bradel, covers preserved. First edition. Off-text plates. Based on the author's experience in a Dakota ranche. - MANDAT-GRANCEY (Edmond de). In the Rocky Mountains. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1884. In-18, half-chagrin (antique binding). First edition. Wood-engraved plates. - MANDAT-GRANCEY (Edmond de). Visiting Uncle Sam. New York and Chicago. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1885. In-18, cold-stamped brown half-chagrin; spine rubbed (period binding). First edition. Out-of-text plates by Victor-Eugène Géruzez dit Crafty and Ernest Martin-Chablis. - MOLINARI (Gustave de). Letters on the United States and Canada. Paris, librairie Hachette et Cie, 1876. In-16, unclipped with front cover missing. First edition of this correspondence relating a trip made from June to October 1876 on the occasion of the Philadelphia World's Fair. - RECLUS (Élisée). Journey to the Sierra-Nevada of Sainte-Marthe. Landscapes of tropical nature.