Tavernier´s Six voyages... 1678
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PERSIA - INDIA - CEYLON - JAPAN. TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTISTE. The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier..., through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670. Giving an Account of the State of those Countries... Together wit a New Relation of the Present Grand Seignor´s Seraglio,... Made English by J. P. To which is added A Description of all the Kingdoms which Encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas. By an English Traveller, never before Printed. London (printed for R- L. and M. P. and are to be sold by John Starkey and Moses Pitt) 1678.
Folio (about 308x185 mm.). (22, 1-264, (2), 1-214, (2 blank), (6), 1-97, (1 blank), (8), 107-119, (3) pp. 24 engraved plates (all, 1 folding, minor foxing), engravings in text. Minor foxing. BOUND WITH:
TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTISTE. A Collection of several Relations and Treatises Singular and Curious... Not Printed among his first Six Voyages. Divided into Five Parts, viz. I. A new and singular Relation of the Kingdom of Tunquin... II. How the Hollanders´ manage their Affairs in Asia. III. A Relation of Japon... IV. A Relation of what passed in the Negotiation of the Deputies which were at Persia and the Indies... V. Observations upon the East India Trade... Published by Edmund Everard... London (printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Moses Pitt) 1680.
Folio (about 308x185 mm.). (22), 1-14, (4), 15-46, (2), 47- 87, (1 blank), 1-66, (2). 1 large folding engraved map (of Japan, tear and mending in the folding). ), 8 engraved plates (all, minor foxing).
Contemporary brown marbled calf, slightly worn, boards refurbished, rebacked, spine somewhat faded in six compartments, new spine label. (renovated by Sangorski & Sutcliffe 1965). A few leaves with marginal mendings.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - 1689), 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues (120,000 miles) in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668, gathering a wealth of information on the commerce of the region and trade routesthrough it. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. (Wikipedia).
The second work published by Edmund Everard in 1680 as a supplement to Six Voyages..., first published in French 1679. It contains among others a description of Tonkin, the northernmost region of Vietnam, and a substantial relation of Japan.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6177
Datum:
2016-06-21