Voyage de Siam des pères jesuites, envoyer par le roy aux Indes & à la Chine.

4to: [16]-424-[8] pp. (dampst. and some moulding in the bl. margins, some soiling and browning).

Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (corners, sides, head and tail restored, joints rubbed).

First edition of the first travel account by the French missionary Tachard (1651-1712), who was first sent to the Caribbean and then twice to the Kingdom of Siam to establish diplomatic relations. Ill. with 20 plates, of which some fold., depicting maps (i.a. of Batavia), indigeneous people, fauna and flora and 7 headpieces (one in vol. I showing the reception of the Siamese ambassadors by Louis XIV).
Ref. DBS VII:1802:1. - Chadenat 187. - Cox I:328. - Cordier, Indosinica, 947 & 953. - Nissen (ZBI) 4066-4067.