Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées
by THEVENOT, Melchisédech
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
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1696 Thevenot Voyages Curious CHINA Ethiopia MAPS Jeronimo Lobo MEXICO Spain
Malechisedech Thevenot was a 17th-century French historian, known for an extensive list of scholarship. One of his best works was 'Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux' – a collection of descriptions of various world discoveries.
Notable contents found in this book include:
· Chinese Empires: Xanxi, Xangtung, Honan, Sushuen, Kiangsi, Kinagnan, Quangtung,
· Japanese Empires
· Ethiopian history, lower and upper Ethiopia
· Giovanni Grueber in China
· Life of Confucius
· Voyages of Jerónimo Lobo
· History of Mexico and Spanish voyages in Central America
· Portuguese conquests in the orient
This highly valuable and extremely desirable volume contains 15 full-page and double-page engravings, illustrations that are known to be extracted and framed. It is incredibly rare to find these illustrations still intact in the book itself.
Item number: #21339
Price: $3500
THEVENOT, Melchisédech
Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées…
Paris : Chez Thomas Moette, 1696.
Details:
· Collation: Volume 2 (of 2)
o Each section with separate pagination
Pagination errors expected
o 15 engraved plates and maps, 63 numbered in-text figures
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~13.25in X 9in (34cm x 23cm)
· Exceedingly rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at $5,000 for this volume
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- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21339
- Title
- Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées
- Author
- THEVENOT, Melchisédech
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Moette
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1696
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1696 Thevenot Voyages Curious CHINA Ethiopia MAPS Jeronimo Lobo MEXICO Spain, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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