LES VOYAGES ILLUSTRES  (travel illustrated)

123 COPIES OF A FRENCH WEEKLY MAGAZINE HANDSOMELY BOUND TOGATHER IN ONE VOLUME WITH LEATHER SPINE. 

published in paris arround 1890

number 1 to 123 

123 full page frontpieces with amazing and often gruesome images 

with topics like monsters, game hunting, vampires, slaves, torture, natives, adventure, cruelty 

note: this is a French language book/magazine 


Book is G+ condition. 

Straight and tight, no loose pages and appears unread. no splitting between endpapers and boards

There is no underlining or writing in the book. 

Not an ex-library, not a book club, no stamps, no stickes. some rubbing/ shelf wear to boards and spine. there is foxing throughout the book, some discoloring to page edges, some short tears in page-edges never affecting the illustration, some light soiling, no remainder.

a very nice sollid copy of this book. quite scarce in leather binding.


i could not find out much information about these magazines. 

someone is selling facsimile copies of individual editions for $20.- a piece.

these are the real magazines, you could frame them individually. do the math. 


here is a brief description of all 123 front pieces:

1 huge vampire bat monster attacking woman
2 slavery kidnaping
3 natives wild animals
4 slavery
5  natives cruelty
6  upperclass diner party
7  naval
8 naval war
9 natives slavery
10 slavery cruelty
11 hunting puma
12 hunting natives
13  wildfire game on the run
14  naval war
15 monkey hunting
16 natives cruelty
17 death sick seamen
18  lion attack mauling
19 slave sale
20 naval military
21  shaman taking to animals big game
22 natives military
23 two groups meet in mountains military
24  crocodile wrestling native
25  slavery wild animal
26  natives killing whites torture bondage
27 native muslim lion
28 loading a ship 
29 asia parade elephant monkey
30 belly dancer
31 lion vs rhinoceros 
32  women harem 
33 sea storm ship wrecks shark attack
34 breaking of storm naval
35 elephant attack person
36 hurricane at sea shipwreck killer whale 
37 giant sea-monsters attack people
38 giant octopus attacks ship
39 giant octopus attacks man on shore
40 knight naval 
41 knight slave escape
42 party crashers
43  deep sea diving shipwreck
44 natives attack a ship
45 shipwreck find skeletons 
46 canon on ship fires at natives
47 pirates enter ship
48  giant whales attack small boat
49 ladies in nature
50 natives hunting eagles
51 tiger attacks men in boat
52 two dead bodies after knife fight
53 slave revolt
54 bound slave
55 two slaves fight for entertainment
56 indoor tiger
57 ship after native attack
58  admiring the collection
59 native with otter eating lobster
60  naval seagull 
61  fishing ferry small town river
62  a mountain of human severed heads 
63 cruelty towards a woman
64 russian ladies 
65 sea monster attacks
66 boxing match
67 reading a letter
68 harem 
69 woman on trail
70 captured bound in wagon 
71 torture
72  religious deathbed
73 religious grave 
74 explosion killing man
75 mongolians at market russia
76   man killing woman with revolver
77 war-scene
78  keelhauling torture naval
79 sick and poor vs.strong and healthy sailors
80 robbery in process
81 knife fight 
82  getting portrait done military naval
83 police satire
84 waterfall
85 mongols on horseback
86 wild man cutting of bound woman's nose with knife
87 two women, one with cut of nose
88 shipwreck in storm
89 lions attack men
90 crocodile eats bound woman
91  man in crocodile suit with woman
92 man saves woman war
93 two man at woman's deathbed
94 zombi waking from the dead
95 native saves white woman after shipwreck
96 white stabs native with knife
97 vulture attacks man with knife
98 man in suit on elephant
99 beggar boy military man
100 man attacks whale with and board
101  giant sea eels attack man
102 woman dead with man on beach
103 man on dangerous cliff
104  lion hunting with lasso
105 amazon lady horseback
106 game bird hunting
107 lion and man in mountains
108  lost man eating snake and lizard
109  getting killed in duel
110 weird freak sailor comedy
111 bound men thrown of ship 
112 giant snake attacks woman
113 snakes attack camp fire
114 the bridge fails death
115 bon voyage naval
116 apes attack ship kidnapping woman
117 monkey pickpocket
118 hunting ice bear
119 monkey kills ice bear
120 ice bear hunt
121 mountain climber falling into abyss
122 bear head on pole hunting
123 Eskimo's 

 

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