Live auction - Lot 1046
[Thailand]
Journal du voyage de Siam [...]. Nouvelle édition [...].
Trevoux, par la Compagnie, 1741
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
12mo: [4]-512 pp. (occ. spotting).
Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (head and tail sl. damaged, joints starting to split and rubbed, corners sl. bumped).
Augmented ed. of this detailed account by Abbé de Choisy (1644-1711). He formed part of the official embassy from Louis XIV to the Siamese court that hoped, in vain, to convert the Siamese king to Christianity.
Ref. Cordier, Indosinica, 942. - Cp. Chadenat 2582 (1st ed.).
Prov. Prize book awarded to Vornanus de Nans (?) on September 16th 1757 at a Jesuit college, given by M. Daniel, J. Isnard de Cancelade, L. V. Baussier and H. Rimbaud (prize on front pastdown).