Abrégé de l'Histoire générale des voyages
Subtitle: contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile & de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétre : les mœurs des habitans, les religion, les usages, arts & sciences, commerce, manufactures : enrichie de cartes géographiques & de figures
By: par M. de La Harpe ...
Contributors: Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763.; Comeiras, Victor Delpuech de, 1733-1805.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Hôtel de Thou ...
Published: 1780
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Thacher, II, p. 54 (French Revolution)
An abridgment of abbé Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages, first published in Paris 1746-1789.
Vols. 24-32 are a supplement by Victor Comeiras.
Imprint varies: v. 22-23, A Paris : Chez Laporte ...; v. 24-32, A Paris : Chez Moutardier ...
Vol. 1-21, 1780; v. 22-23, 1786; v. 24-26, 1798; v. 27, An VIIIe. [1799 or 1800]; v. 28-29, 1800; v. 30-32, 1801.
Vol. 1: xxiv, lij, lxxxiv, 350 p., [14] leaves of plates (5 folded); v. 2: [4], 465, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 3: [4], 506 p., [14] leaves of plates (5 folded); v. 4: [4], 544, [4] p., [15] leaves of plates (8 folded); v. 5: [4], 672, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 6: [4], 526, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 7: [4], 525, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 8: [4], 494 p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 9: [4], 418 p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 10: [4], 487, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 11: [4], 503, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates (4 folded); v. 12: [4], 481, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 13: [4], 493, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates (6 folded); v. 14: [4], 572 p., [6] leaves of plates (4 folded); v. 15: [4] 637, [1] p., [1?] leaf of plates; v. 16: [4], 532 p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 17: [4], 510 p., [7] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 18: [4], 660 p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 19: [4], 438, [2] p., [6] folded leaves of plates; v. 20: [4], 490, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 21: [4], 671, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates (4 folded); v. 22: [4], 56, 558 p. [3?] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 23: [4], 616 p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 24: [2], viij, 487, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 25: [4], 471, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 26: [4], 532 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 27: [4], 527, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 28:
Errata part of regular pagination above, except as noted: v. 3, p. [3] at end; v. 4, p. [3] at end; v. 6, p. [2] at end; v. 19, p. [2] at end.
Includes indexes (in v. 1 and 32).
LC copy has maps removed from v. 1-21 and bound into a separate atlas v. (27 cm.) of 74 maps. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1-21, plates 21, 35, 42, 65 wanting; plate 74 cut to pieces by trimming.  Vol. 11, half title wanting. Vol. 22, 2 plates wanting. Vol. 23, folded map bound in at folds.