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THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH) Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation image 1
THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH) Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation image 2
THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH) Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation image 3
Lot 12

THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH)
Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
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THEVÉNOT (MELCHISÉDECH)

Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux qui n'ont point este' publiees; ou qui ont este' traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois... et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux, 4 parts in 2 vol., titles printed in red and black, tables and several leaves of text (including one in Greek) printed in red and black, 27 engraved maps and plates (10 double-page or folding, Australia and Persia with small hole at fold), 5 wood-engraved plates (4 folding of coastal profiles), engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text (including 45 full-page of a Mexican Codex, and half-page illustration of a dodo), contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled in 7 compartments within raised bands, joints refurbished [Sabin 95333, note; cf. Brunet V, pp.810-13, "collection intéressante"; Cordier Sinica 1944, 1696 edition], folio (370 x 230mm.), Paris, André Pralard, 1683, sold not subject to return owing to the complex collation

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Orientalist, scientist, diplomat and author Thevénot (c.1621-1692) "was one of the most important correspondents linking Paris to the rest of the European scientific world... a bibliophile and man of letters with a personal library of thousands of works" (DSB). His Relations was an important compilation of explorations and voyages, principally relating to Asia and East Indies, with a particular strength in China, but including Thomas Gage's travels in Mexico and New Spain, and Acarette's journey up the La Plata.

During the course of publication the parts (the first of which was issued in 1663) were re-issued in 1664, 1666, 1672, 1683 [as here], and posthumously in 1696. This copy includes the important map of Australia "Hollandia Nova detecta 1644. Terre Australe decouuerte l'an 1644", the issue with the rhumb lines, Tropic of Capricorn, and route of Tasman's voyage of 1644.

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