Live auction - Lot 1027

[India - Japan]

TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste

De zes reizen van de heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, Baron van Aubonne; die hy, gedurende de tijt van veertig jaren, in Turkijen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft. Eerste deel; daar in van Turkijen, Persiën en 't Serrail gehandelt word.

Amsterdam, Wid. J. van Someren [= Hester de Weer], 1682


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4to: [8]-304 pp. (pp. 305-307 missing, some dampstaining near the end, last pp. partly underl. or restored).

Mod. cardboard, marbled paper, flat spine. Wide-margined copy.

Third and last part of the rare first edition of the Dutch translation (1st Paris 1676-79), trsl. by J.H. Glazemaker, of this famous travel account by the French pioneer J.B. Tavernier (1605-1689). Between 1643 and 1682, Tavernier travelled 6 times to the Middle and Far East. His 7th expedition, to Russia, was his final and fatal one. These two parts describe India and Japan. Ill. with one double-page map of Japan, one fold. map of Tonkin and 10 engr. pl. of which some double page; 14 engr. pl. (some fold.) in the last part "Munt van Arabiën". In Gothic type.
Ref. Tiele 1080. - Klaversma & Hannema 1396-7 & 1402-5. - STCN (i.a. BL). - Cp. Brunet V:680-682, Atabey 1199-1201, Blackmer 321-322, Chadenat 6810-1 (not this ed.).

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Lot 1027

De zes reizen van de heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, Baron van Aubonne; die hy, gedurende de tijt van veertig jaren, in Turkijen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft. Eerste deel; daar in van Turkijen, Persiën en 't Serrail gehandelt word.

TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste

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