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VALLE, Pietro della. Les Fameux Voyages. Paris: Gervais Clouzier, 1670-1684-1664. 4 volumes, 4 (240 x 176mm). Engraved portrait of Valle's wife in vol.I, 5 full-page diagrammatic illustrations in vol. IV. (Vol. I with paperfault tear to E4, vol. III with old dampstaining and lacking final blank, vol. IV with paper fault hole in Cc4.) Contemporary French speckled calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: ?Bossuet family (ink stamp on titles and occasional margins of text leaves).
A FINE SET, mixed editions. The first French translation was published in Rome in 1650-1663. The fourth volume of the present set is from the second edition in French published in Paris between 1661 and 1664. The translation from the Italian original is by Etienne Carneau and Franois Le Comte. "The text consists of 54 letters written by della Valle to the Neapolitan physician Schipano during the course of his travels. Della Valle left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, From there he travelled through Syria to Persia, where he married the Circassian Setti Manni and spent some time at the Court of Shah Abbas. He carried on his travels to the west coast of India, finally returning to Italy in 1626. The greatest number of letters are from Persia": Blackmer 1712 (a mixed set 1670-1664). (4)
A FINE SET, mixed editions. The first French translation was published in Rome in 1650-1663. The fourth volume of the present set is from the second edition in French published in Paris between 1661 and 1664. The translation from the Italian original is by Etienne Carneau and Franois Le Comte. "The text consists of 54 letters written by della Valle to the Neapolitan physician Schipano during the course of his travels. Della Valle left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, From there he travelled through Syria to Persia, where he married the Circassian Setti Manni and spent some time at the Court of Shah Abbas. He carried on his travels to the west coast of India, finally returning to Italy in 1626. The greatest number of letters are from Persia": Blackmer 1712 (a mixed set 1670-1664). (4)