Voyages celebres et remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes orientales ... contenant unde description nouvelle et tr�s-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des �les et presqu'�les de l'Orient, des royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, etc. ... mis en ordre et publiez ... par Adam Olearius traduits de l'original par A. de Wicquefort ... nouvelle edition rev�e et corrig�e exactement, augment�e considerablement, Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le C�ne, 1727, half-title to volume 1, title pages printed in red and black, engraved arms to dedication, portrait 20 maps and plans (most of them folding), 16 folding views including panorama of Tokyo, 1 folding plate depicting Hottentots, 7 further plates not mentioned in the 'avis au relieur', 19 vignettes in the text, final privilege leaf, additional engraved title and volume 2 half-title lacking, occasional spotting and browning, later hand-colouring to folding map 'Royaume de Perse' and the views of Gamron (i.e. Bandar Abbas) and Anvers, plan of Goa with small rupture to intersection of folds, map of the Congo with short split along one fold, short closed tear to 'La rade de Batavia' plate not affecting image, mild damp-staining towards rear, near-contemporary calf, gilt spine, joints cracking superficially at ends, folio (31 x 19 cm) Atabey 884 (accompanied by a copy of Olearius's Voyages ... faits en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse), Cordier Indosinica 883, Japonica 367-8, Sinica 2077, Cox I pp. 271-2 for other editions. Re-issue of Van der Aa's 1719 Leiden edition, the preferred edition of a work first published in German in 1647. Mandelslo travelled to Persia in 1633 as part of an embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein; the other ambassadors remained in Persia but Mandelslo obtained permission to continue to India, sailing from Hormuz on the Persian Gulf in 1638 and landing at Surat, thence travelling throughout India and returning to London via Ceylon and Madagascar. In addition to the regions visited, the plates and maps depict China, Japan, and various locations in the Dutch East Indies. (1)
Voyages celebres et remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes orientales ... contenant unde description nouvelle et tr�s-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des �les et presqu'�les de l'Orient, des royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, etc. ... mis en ordre et publiez ... par Adam Olearius traduits de l'original par A. de Wicquefort ... nouvelle edition rev�e et corrig�e exactement, augment�e considerablement, Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le C�ne, 1727, half-title to volume 1, title pages printed in red and black, engraved arms to dedication, portrait 20 maps and plans (most of them folding), 16 folding views including panorama of Tokyo, 1 folding plate depicting Hottentots, 7 further plates not mentioned in the 'avis au relieur', 19 vignettes in the text, final privilege leaf, additional engraved title and volume 2 half-title lacking, occasional spotting and browning, later hand-colouring to folding map 'Royaume de Perse' and the views of Gamron (i.e. Bandar Abbas) and Anvers, plan of Goa with small rupture to intersection of folds, map of the Congo with short split along one fold, short closed tear to 'La rade de Batavia' plate not affecting image, mild damp-staining towards rear, near-contemporary calf, gilt spine, joints cracking superficially at ends, folio (31 x 19 cm) Atabey 884 (accompanied by a copy of Olearius's Voyages ... faits en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse), Cordier Indosinica 883, Japonica 367-8, Sinica 2077, Cox I pp. 271-2 for other editions. Re-issue of Van der Aa's 1719 Leiden edition, the preferred edition of a work first published in German in 1647. Mandelslo travelled to Persia in 1633 as part of an embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein; the other ambassadors remained in Persia but Mandelslo obtained permission to continue to India, sailing from Hormuz on the Persian Gulf in 1638 and landing at Surat, thence travelling throughout India and returning to London via Ceylon and Madagascar. In addition to the regions visited, the plates and maps depict China, Japan, and various locations in the Dutch East Indies. (1)
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