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FRANCOIS LA BOULLAYE LE GOUZ (1610-1669)
Les Voyages et Observations. Paris: François Clousier, 1653. 4° (245 x 180mm). Woodcut frontispiece portrait, etched portrait, both of the author, 34 woodcut illustrations, many full-page. (Quires Eee to Ooo browned). Contemporary French speckled calf, red speckled edges (extremities worn, spine chipped and torn at head). Provenance: Comte de Sinéty (bookplate) -- purchased from W. Heffer, Cambridge, July 1936, for £4 10s. (with bookseller's label).
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. La Boullaye-Le-Gouz, whose family was of English descent, fought for Charles I in the Civil War before being entrusted by Louis XIV with an embassy to the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan. While passing through Persia in 1648, he assumed the Turkish name of Ibrahim Beg and wore the costume of a Persian nobleman, a fact commemorated in the frontispiece to his book, 'notable for its information on northern India and its relation to Persia,' says Howgego, 'and for its inclusion of a summary of the Ramayana'. Other attractive woodcuts include the castle of Amasia, a plan of the Seraglio, a view of Mt. Ararat, natural history subjects and Indian wall paintings. Atabey 645; Brunet III, 718; Howgego L4.
Les Voyages et Observations. Paris: François Clousier, 1653. 4° (245 x 180mm). Woodcut frontispiece portrait, etched portrait, both of the author, 34 woodcut illustrations, many full-page. (Quires Eee to Ooo browned). Contemporary French speckled calf, red speckled edges (extremities worn, spine chipped and torn at head). Provenance: Comte de Sinéty (bookplate) -- purchased from W. Heffer, Cambridge, July 1936, for £4 10s. (with bookseller's label).
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. La Boullaye-Le-Gouz, whose family was of English descent, fought for Charles I in the Civil War before being entrusted by Louis XIV with an embassy to the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan. While passing through Persia in 1648, he assumed the Turkish name of Ibrahim Beg and wore the costume of a Persian nobleman, a fact commemorated in the frontispiece to his book, 'notable for its information on northern India and its relation to Persia,' says Howgego, 'and for its inclusion of a summary of the Ramayana'. Other attractive woodcuts include the castle of Amasia, a plan of the Seraglio, a view of Mt. Ararat, natural history subjects and Indian wall paintings. Atabey 645; Brunet III, 718; Howgego L4.
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