E. Charton - Le Tour du Monde - Tête de Collection - 1860

Le Tour du Monde - Tête de Collection, 1860, Rare. Complete 2 Semestres gathered into a single and thick volume - Nouveau Journal des Voyages published under the direction of Edouard Charton and illustrated by our most famous Artists -
This is the very first collection merging two semesters of the famous review; it brings together the first issues from January 1860 - This initial volume offers narratives of distant explorations, descriptions of foreign lands, customs, landscapes and scientific discoveries, written by travelers recognized such as Edouard Charton, Elisée Reclus, Charles Darwin, Ouvarovski, Guillaume Lejean, Ferdinand de Lanoye, Jules Moynet, Le Marquis de Moges, Henri Michelant, L. Gaussin, A. Proust, Richard Dana, etc., etc. -
- Half-leather green binding, spine with raised bands with title and year of edition in gold, boards and guards with green-stained marbling, 424 and 426 pages, quarto format (23 x 31.5 cm) - Abundantly and richly illustrated with wood engravings (xilographies) in-text and full-page - Table of contents: see photos -
Condition: wear; the binding is tired, the boards are rubbed, small scuffs on the leather, the headbands are slightly worn, the corners are bumped and the edges of the binding are rubbed, scattered foxing may appear on some pages, but this copy is among the rarest in the Charton "Tour du Monde" collection -
-Bref Summary 1st Semester: 21 full-page maps and plans and in-text -
Death of the Traveler Adolphe Schlagintweit in Turkestan (1857) - A Few Days in Morocco - Religious Traditions of Polynesia - Discovery of great African Lakes - Biography: Karl Ritter - Sir John Franklin and his Companions - Circumnavigation Voyage of the Austrian Frigate "La Novara": Saint Paul Island, Ceylon, Nicobar Islands, Singapore, Java, the Philippines (1857-1859) - Prices proposed by the Paris Geographical Society - Cochin China in 1859 - New Discoveries of Dr. Livingstone - Voyage to Albania, Montenegro, in 1858 - Fragments of a Voyage in the Orient: Ceylon, Calcutta, etc. - The Andaman Islands (Indian Ocean) - The Amur River - Voyage to the Shore of the Caspian Sea, from Astrakhan to Baku (1858) - Voyage to China and Japan (1857-1858) - Fragments of a Voyage to New Orleans - Voyage to the Great Viti (Great Equatorial Ocean) - Voyages to Morocco (1670-1789-1860) - Voyage of D. Giovanni Mastaï (His Holiness Pope Pius IX), in South America (Genoa to Santiago: 1823-1824) - Adventures and Hunts of Traveler Anderson in Southern Africa -
The Polar Sea: Fragments of a Voyage in 1853-54-55 - Captain Palisser and the Exploration of the Rocky Mountains (1857-1859) - Voyage to Herzegovina (1858) - Cape Town and Lake Constantine at the Cape of Good Hope (1857) - Voyage to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, from Baku to Tiflis (1858) - Voyage of Mr Müllhausen, from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific Ocean (1853-1854) - Lieutenant Whippie's Speech to the Kioways - Voyage to Palestine (1856-1859) - List of engravings - List of maps - Bref Summary 2nd Semester: 18 full-page maps and plans in text -
A Month in Sicily (1843) - Voyage to Persia (1855-1858) - Voyages to the West Indies (1858-1859) - Voyage through the Scandinavian States (1858) - Voyage of Mr. Guillaume Lejean in East Africa (1860) - Voyage to Mount Athos (1858) - Voyage of a Naturalist: the Galapagos Archipelago and the Atolls or Coral Islands (1838) - Biography: Brun-Rollet - Voyage to the Land of the Yakuts: Asian Russia (1830-1839) -
From Sydney to Adelaide: South Australia (1860) - Voyages and Discoveries in the Center of Africa (1849-1855) - Voyages and Adventures of Baron de Wogan in California (1850-1852) - Voyage to the Kingdom of Ava: Empire of the Burmese (1855) - Voyage to the Great Lakes of East Africa (1857-1859) -
Fragment of a Voyage to Saubat: Affluent of the White Nile (1855) - Voyage to the Island of Cuba (1859) - Excursions in Dauphiné (1850-1860) - List of engravings - List of maps - Errata -