Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste
Les six voyages, en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
premiere [...] seconde partie [...] Recueil des plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers et curieux, qui n'ont point esté mis dans se six premiers voyages. [Amsterdam:] suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 1679.
3 volumes, 12mo, Six voyages in contemporary vellum, Recueil in modern vellum, [36] 782 [10], [12] 616, [8] 564 [4] pp., engraved additional title-page to volume 1, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 3, 44 plates (most folding), 2 folding maps (Japan and Tonkin, i.e. Vietnam), the plates depicting views, customs, Islamic coins, documents, jewels, natural history subjects, etc., ownership inscriptions 'Ex libris Guillelmi Wauchope, empt: Lugd: Bat: an: 1699' to front free endpapers of volumes 1 and 2 [Willems 1937]
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
Early Amsterdam edition, 'the prettiest and the most complete of the Dutch reprints' (Willems), of one of the most important and extensive travel accounts of Asia and the Middle East published in the 17th century. There was also a near-identical later edition, distinguished by the substitution of a fleuron for the two-line errata at the end of the first volume. The second volume contains 27 plates, whereas Willems calls for 24 only.