Baudelot de Dairval, De l'utilité des voyages, Paris, 1686, nineteenth-century vellum

2 volumes in one, 12mo (166 x 99 mm). Roman and italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: π¹⁰ A-Z^8,4 2A-2G^4,8 *⁸ 2*⁴; π⁴ 2H⁷ 2I-2Z^4,8 3A-3M^8,4 M-S^8,4: 393 leaves (734 pp. plus 14 pp. index). Numerous engraved in-text illustrations, errata leaf at end of each volume, several manuscript corrections in margins and 4-line manuscript dedication in Latin at lower margin of printed dedication leaf in first volume. (Text leaves browned.)

binding: Nineteenth-century vellum gilt (173 x 112 mm), spine with morocco labels, yellow edges. (Soiling to binding.)

provenance: Early 4-line Latin inscription on π10 signed "B.D.L.M."—"PARIS-1879", stamp on lower pastedown. acquisition: Purchased c. 1990 from Powell's Books, Chicago. references: Grinke and Parikian, From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1984, no. 6