Relation du voyage de Perse et des Indes orientales. Traduite de l'anglois [...]. Avec les révolutions arrivées au Royaume de Siam l'an mil six cens quarante-sept. Traduites du flamand de Jeremie Van Vliet.

4to: [6]-632-[24] pp. (sl. marg. dampstaining, with sl. mould spot at end, sl. foxing, sl. soiling on title, sm. hole in p. 555).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (joints, head, tail, corners and partly boards repaired, scratchings on lower cover).

First French translation by the diplomat A. Van Wicquefort (1598?-1682) of the most complete 17th-c. work on Persia. The English traveller Herbert (1606-1682) was part of the ambassade of Dodmore Cotton sent by Charles I to Persia at the court of the shah Abbas I. During his voyage, he stopped at Madagascar, Goa, Surat, Isfahan, Bagdad and Moluccas. "In Returning to England, Herbert coasted the eastern shores of North America; which gives him occasion to display some erudition on the subject of the discovery of the New World" (Sabin). Contains also information on Japan, China, Ceylon, etc. With some examples of words in Maly (or Malacca) with their French translation (pp. 511-514). The account of Herbert's voyage is followed with the story of King of Siam's death in 1647.
Ref. Cordier, Sinica, 2082, Japonica, 346 and Indosinica, 875. - Cp. Sabin 31473 (English ed.).