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MICHAEL SYMES
Relation de l'Ambassade Anglaise envoyée en 1795 dans le Royaume d'Ava, ou l'Empire des Birmans. Paris: F. Buisson, 1800. 4 volumes including atlas, 8° (194 x 120mm) and 4° (331 x 251mm). 28 engraved plates and 2 folding maps. (Larger map with two tears at inner margin, the longer tear with old adhesive tape repair on verso.) Contemporary marbled half sheep with red morocco labels, green edges (atlas vol. worn at extremities). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Cordier Sinica 447.
FRANÇOIS TIMOLÉON DE CHOISY (1644-1724)
Journal du Voyage de Siam fait en 1685 et 1686. Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687. 12° (147 x 78mm). Contemporary calf, spine gilt, speckled edges (extremities rubbed). Second edition of this account of Louis XIV's mission to Siam in 1685-86, the first appearing in 4to in the same year. Howgego C121.
Together with three other works: Marco Polo, De Regionibus Orientalibus, Cologne, 1671, 4° (lacks both engraved frontispieces), modern half calf; William Marsden, Histoire de Sumatra, Paris, 1788, 2 volumes, 8°, 19th-century calf; and Joseph de Guignes, Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France, Paris, 1808, 3 text vols. only (lacking atlas), uncut in contemporary wrappers. (11)
Relation de l'Ambassade Anglaise envoyée en 1795 dans le Royaume d'Ava, ou l'Empire des Birmans. Paris: F. Buisson, 1800. 4 volumes including atlas, 8° (194 x 120mm) and 4° (331 x 251mm). 28 engraved plates and 2 folding maps. (Larger map with two tears at inner margin, the longer tear with old adhesive tape repair on verso.) Contemporary marbled half sheep with red morocco labels, green edges (atlas vol. worn at extremities). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Cordier Sinica 447.
FRANÇOIS TIMOLÉON DE CHOISY (1644-1724)
Journal du Voyage de Siam fait en 1685 et 1686. Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687. 12° (147 x 78mm). Contemporary calf, spine gilt, speckled edges (extremities rubbed). Second edition of this account of Louis XIV's mission to Siam in 1685-86, the first appearing in 4to in the same year. Howgego C121.
Together with three other works: Marco Polo, De Regionibus Orientalibus, Cologne, 1671, 4° (lacks both engraved frontispieces), modern half calf; William Marsden, Histoire de Sumatra, Paris, 1788, 2 volumes, 8°, 19th-century calf; and Joseph de Guignes, Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France, Paris, 1808, 3 text vols. only (lacking atlas), uncut in contemporary wrappers. (11)
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