E. Vigneaux, A. Pailhès - 2 voll. RARE - L'Arcipelago Tahiti _ Viaggio nel Messico - 1874-1877

2 scarce volumes of the travel library series published by Fratelli Treves from around 1870 onward, this represents one of the most significant and fascinating editorial series of post-unification Italy for the diffusion of travel literature, exploration, and geographical dissemination.

The series was created to respond to the growing interest of the bourgeois public in the outside world, translating the accounts of great European explorers and publishing the testimonies of the earliest European travelers of the era; moreover, in a fully positivist age it offers the nineteenth-century reader the thrill of scientific discovery of unknown lands, exotic realms, and remote peoples.

DETAILS
2 volumes bound in one tome, truly rare if not unobtainable at the moment, complete with all the iconographic apparatus including folded maps and detailed engravings executed by the great masters of late 19th century engraving.
Cloth binding 22x15 cm, about 300 pages total, 86 engravings - 6 maps in total

Voyage to Mexico

author: E. Vigneaux
year: 1874
publisher: Fratelli Treves editors
illustrations: 44 engravings and 4 maps of which 3 are folded

The Tahiti Archipelago and the Pacific Islands

author: A. Pailhès (Flag Officer)
year: 1877
publisher: Fratelli Treves editors
illustrations: 42 engravings and 2 folded maps, of which one is folded

Conditions: complete, solid, fully usable in its entirety, binding in good condition, illustrations all present.
abrasions on the exterior, some signs of use, paper browned with some foxing, a few pages with contemporaneous trimming of a few millimeters at the bottom (only in the white part of the page)