Live auction - Lot 1066
Live auction - Lot 1066
[Travels - East Indies]
Voyages [...] aux Indes Orientales et en d'autres lieux de l'Asie, avec une relation curieuse de la ville de Batavia, et des moeurs et du commerce des Hollandois établis dans les Indes.
Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, [1719]
Hammer price: €
190
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Lot description
8vo: [2]-308 [= 358] pp.; 4 pl. (title and 2 ff. "catalogue des livres" loose, title cut at lower margin, tears in folds of 1 pl., occ. toning or spotting).
Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (some rubbing).
First French translation (1st Dutch 1703) of the travelogue of the surgeon Graaff (1639-1687). He travelled from Holland, via the Cape of Good Hope and the African coasts, to the Dutch East Indies (where he spent considerable time in the capital Batavia), but also to Japan, the Maluku Islands, etc. Ill. with 4 plates (of which 1 fold.).
Ref. Chadenat 5063 ("relation rare"). - Tiele 93/94. - Brunet II:1086.