1782 leather bound French book, Voyages de Chapelle et Bachaumont order Suivi, 250 year old book, thick paper, great condition, bibliophile love

I admit to being one of those "nose in a book" persons whose ides of heaven is a book, cat and cuppa.
But I had no idea what the feeling of holding a 250 year old book would be like until recently.
I trembled.
This volume published in 1782 is covered in a thick leather and has the stamp of time and love. The people who must have held this book, reading by candlelight late into the night. Books would have been a great luxury: cared for and respected.
It shows in the pages, the thick rag paper is in excellent condition. The spine is solid, the bottom front spine is slightly detached, but not structurally.
The patina on the leather is beautiful. The marbled paper has a spiral design. The French is classical and even intermediate level speakers can make out aa lot of it. Even with no French, sitting with this book is an experience in the appreciation of humanity, and history.

The title translates to "The travels of Chapelle, and Bachaumont followed. Or Following the travels of Chapelle and Bachaumont.
Chapelle and Bachaumont were two writers and authors of the Ancien Regime, and this book was originally published in 1750.

From Wikipedia:
Claude-Emmanuel Luillier , dit Chapelle , born in 1626 or 1627 in the Parisian suburb of La Chapelle-Saint-Denis , and died in 1686 , was a French man of letters of the Grand Siècle , who remained in literary history for having been the intimate friend of three major authors of the time: Cyrano de Bergerac , D'Assoucy and Molière , and for having written, with François Le Coigneux de Bachaumont , a Voyagein prose and verse which has been the model for many other stories of the same form.

Also close to François Bernier , La Fontaine , Racine , Boileau and Chaulieu , the lightness of his spirit and his playfulness earned him, towards the end of his life, to frequent the Parisian salons and to be appreciated by several "great lords" of the court of Louis XIV .

The book measures 4 by 6.5 by 2 inches.

I recently purchased the small items from the Estate of a family who owned and operated a variety of enterprises in a town famous for its tall ship building. The ships would sail the world and bring back treasures from the continent and eastern seaboard. The Victorian home was filled with these magnificent finds, added to over the decades by other generations.
I am up to my ears in magnificence.
Victorian, Edwardian, the 20's, 30's 40's and 50's....all under one large roof.
Because the items were bought from the owners, the items have not been picked over in antique shops or (shudder) thrift stores. This is a rare opportunity to own something, well, rare.
And no, I don't actually want to sell any of it.

Make every day a special order occasion.

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