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TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste (1605-1689). Les Six Voyages ... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes. 'Paris' [but Amsterdam]: 1679. 2 volumes. [With:] Recueil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux. "Paris" [but Amsterdam]: 1681. 2 parts in one volume. Together 3 volumes, 12 (148 x 90mm). Engraved additional title to vol.I, portrait of the author, 2 folding maps and 45 plates (37 folding). (V3 in vol.I torn and neatly repaired at outer margin, outer margin somewhat tattered of folding plate in vol. II at pp. 374-375.) 19th-century red morocco gilt by Niedre, covers with triple fillet border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, imprint at foot of spines, the other compartments with repeat overall pattern of massed volute tool, gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, g.e. Provenance: A.L.[?emallier] (monogram label, and inkstamps); C. N. Radoulesco (booklabel).
A FINE COPY (?SET) OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS OF TAVERNIER'S WORKS. There are conflicting opinions as to whether the three volumes should be treated as a set, or two separate works. A note at the front of the first volume assigns the printing to Abraham Wolfgang, but Willems doubts this. Brunet V, 681; Willems 1937.
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A FINE COPY (?SET) OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS OF TAVERNIER'S WORKS. There are conflicting opinions as to whether the three volumes should be treated as a set, or two separate works. A note at the front of the first volume assigns the printing to Abraham Wolfgang, but Willems doubts this. Brunet V, 681; Willems 1937.
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