Recueil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux [...].

[Amsterdam], following the copy printed in Paris, 1681

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8vo: [8]-564-[3] pp. (some min. soiling and browning, mostly marg.).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine, sp. edges.

Second edition of this collection of writings on Japan, trade with Persia, India, and the East Indies, Indochina, Dutch affairs in Asia, and the Seraglio of the Ottoman Sultan by the French traveler and pioneer Tavernier (1605-1689). Ill with 2 fold. engr. maps and 8 fold. engr. pl.
Ref. Cordier, Japonica, 394. - BnF.
Prov. Henriette Hygare (ms. entry and stamp?).