Naukeurige beschrijvinge van het koningrijck Siam [...]. Als mede het verhaal der staats-omkeeringen in Siam, voorgevallen in 't jaar 1688 [...] en het leven en daden van de heer Constantijn Faulcon, eerste geheijme raad van gemelte koningrijk Siam.

4to: [8]-34-[2]-12-103-[1] pp. (upper margin cut, occ. spotting).

Later vellum binding (sl. warping, some spots on front board).

The most reliable and trustworthy source on Thailand's history written in 1638 by Jeremias van Vliet, director of the Dutch East India Company in Ayutthaya. The detailed description of the capital Ayutthaya is particularly important as the city was utterly destroyed in 1767. In 1910 an English translation was published in the "Journal of the Siam Society". Different from Tiele, our copy comprises: 1. the "Staats-omkeeringen", a translation from Desfarges' "Relation des révolutions de Siam en 1688" (Amsterdam, P. Brunel, 1691), 2. the "Leven en daden van de heer Constantijn Faulcon", a translation from P. d'Orleans' "Histoire de M. Constance" (Paris, 1692). These texts are bound before the main work "Naukeurige beschrijvinge van het koningrijck Siam". The work includes an elegant frontispiece featuring an elephant parade.
Ref. Tiele 1169. - Cordier, Indosinica, 724. - Landwehr (VOC) 576. - STCN 833014706.