Embassy to Siam in 1686 by Chaumont
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SIAM (THAILAND). CHAUMONT, ALEXANDRE) DE. Relation de l´ambassade de Mr le chevalier de Chaumont a la cour de Siam. Avec ce qui s´est passé de plus remarquable durant son voyage. Paris (chez Arnoult Seneuse et Daniel Horthemels) 1686.
Small 8:o (about 155x88 mm.). (2), 3-231, (1 blank), 1-29, (3, last blank) pp. 7 engraved plates, of which 3 folding (probably lacking 1 plate).
Contemporary brown calf, worn, gilt edges of covers, cracks in the joints, somewhat faded richly gilt spine in six compartments, redspeckled edges. Old annotation on inside of upper cover. Bookplate "Gloddaeth Library".
The number of plates varies between 6 and 9.
There is another edition by Seneuse and Horthemels printed the same year in Paris with different plates and pagination.
From the library at Gloddaeth Hall, the former home of the Mostyn family, after the Crown the oldest landowning family in Wales, Llandudno, Conwy.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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Auktionsnummer:
739082
Datum:
2020-03-08