Tavernier´s Six voyages... 1677
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PERSIA - INDIA - CEYLON. TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTISTE. The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier... through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of Forty Years, giving an Account of the present State of those Countries, Viz. of the Religions, Governement, Customs, and Commerce of every Country, and the Figures, Weight, and Value of Money currant all over Asia. To which is added, A new Description of the Seraglio. Made English by J. P. Added likewise, A Voyage into the Indies, &c. By an English Traveller, never before Printed. Publish´d by Dr Daniel Cox. London (printed by William Godbid, for Robert Littlebury and Moses Pitt) 1677.
Folio (c. 320x197 mm.). (20), 1-184, 195-258, (2), 259- 264, 1-214, (2 blank), (6), 1-97, (1 blank), (8), 107-119, (3) pp. 2 engraved frontispieces, 21 engraved plates (of 22, lacks 1 plate, 1 with tear in inner margin, 1 with small marginal hole, partly some foxing), some engravings in text.
Contemporary brown full leather, somewhat worn, some cracks in the joints, spine in six compartments. A few marginal wormholes. Some minor foxing or staining. Bookplate of D. G. Mackenzie.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - 1689), 17th-century French gem merchant and traveller. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant, traveling at his own expense, he 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. In 1675, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, he published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. (Wikipedia).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6163
Date:
2016-12-20