Vol. 1.

Title : VOYAGES | ET MÉMOIRES | DE | MAURICE-AUGUSTE, | COMTE DE BENYOWSKY, | Magnat des Royaumes d’Hongrie et de | Pologne, etc. etc. | Contenant ses Opérations militaires en | Pologne, son exil au Kamtchatka, son Evasion | et son Voyage à travers l’Océan pacifique, au | Japon, à Formose, à Canton en Chine, et | les détails de l’Etablissement qu’il fut chargé | par le Ministère François de former à Mada- | gascar. | TOME PREMIER. | A PARIS, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue | Hautefeuille, no 20. | (1791.)

Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-viii, [1] 2-466.

Collation: 8vo; [π]2 a4, A-Ff8 Gg1.

Vol. 2.

Title: Similar, but TOME SECOND.

Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [1] 2-486.

Collation: 8vo; [π]2 A-Gg8 Hh3, Hh3 unsigned.

Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in half brown calf over speckled beige boards, crimson label with gilt lettering to flat spine, volume number in garland, florets in compartments. Bookplate to front pastedown: "C. De Oetting." Ink stamp to t.p.: "Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek".

Provenance:  Oettingen-Wallerstein library (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek) is the former library of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, now part of the collection of Augsburg University library.

Additional Information

Collection Library
Type / Purpose Book
Country France
Period 18 AD , Late 18th century
Language French
Media/Technique Laid paper , Paper
Subject Adventurers , Adventures , Autobiography , Biography , Description and travel , Exiles , History , Literature , Madagascar , Memoirs , Penal labor , Siberia (Russia) , Travel , Voyages and Travels
Creation / Publishing year 1791
Edition 1st edition, thus
Binding Half-calf , Hardcover
Size 19 x 13 cm , 8vo
Signature Bookplate , Stamp
Acquisition year 2021

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