Philippines rare books

First edition in Spanish, 8vo, 460, [1]pp., portrait frontispiece, contemporary red sheep-backed marbled boards, very worn.

First edition in English, 8vo, x, 370pp., folding map frontispiece, wood-engravings in the text, original pebble-grained blue cloth gilt, decorated and ruled in black, neatly recased with new endpapers, small repair head of spine, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

First edition. Four text volumes, 4to (31 x 23.5cm) and folio atlas (61.5 x 45cm). Engraved portrait of La Pérouse after Tardieu, all half-titles, colophon leaf in vol. I-III, vol. IV colophon following index. (vol. IV with a few minor marginal chips repaired.) Atlas with engraved allegorical title-page by Moreau le Jeune, titled Atlas du voyage de La Pérouse without imprint, and 69 engraved plates comprising folding world map, 35 views and natural history plates,33 maps or coastal profiles (20 double-page). Original pink paper covered boards, unopened and uncut, neat repairs and restoration to bindings, spines faded, covers with old residual dampstaining, modern red morocco labels, a fine set.