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PIERRE SONNERAT (1749-1814)
Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, Paris: Dentu, 1806. 4 volumes, 8° (193 x 118mm), and Atlas volume: Collection de Planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, 4° (289 x 214mm). Engraved double-page plan and 139 plates, all by Poisson after Sonnerat. (Occasional light scattered spotting, faint marginal dampstain in atlas volume.) Contemporary tree calf, gilt borders, flat spines with morocco labels (corners slightly rubbed); Atlas volume quarter calf gilt, flat spine with morocco labels; modern morocco backed cloth boxes. Provenance: Philibert de Rambuteau (inscription on half title).
New, expanded edition of an important travel book encompassing India, China, the islands of the Indian Ocean and South Africa, with considerable additional material by the author and the editor, Sonnini. Pierre Sonnerat was the son of another intrepid traveller, Pierre Poivre (1719-86), with whom he visited the Moluccas and the Philippines in the early 1770s. Sonnerat subsequently travelled widely in the Far East, serving as an official French envoy in India and in 1778 assisting the French forces during the siege of Pondicherry. His Voyage was first published in Paris in two quarto volumes in 1782, and in three quarto volumes later that same year. Sonnini's edition incorporates additional material by Sonnerat on, amongst other subjects, the provinces of China, the Brahmin holy book, Charta-Badi and the wreck of the 'Duras' off the Maldives. This edition also includes material by other authors, notably correspondence by the commandant of Mahé and the French governor-general on the subject of Tippoo Sultan (or "Tippu-Sa<->ib", as Sonnini calls him). Listing Sonnerat's merits in his foreword to this edition, Sonnini particularly notes "le talent d'observation, beaucoup de zèle pour les sciences en général, et un goût éclairé pour l'Histoire naturelle en particulier". Cordier Sinica 2102; Lust 353; Mendelssohn pp.337-8.
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Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, Paris: Dentu, 1806. 4 volumes, 8° (193 x 118mm), and Atlas volume: Collection de Planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, 4° (289 x 214mm). Engraved double-page plan and 139 plates, all by Poisson after Sonnerat. (Occasional light scattered spotting, faint marginal dampstain in atlas volume.) Contemporary tree calf, gilt borders, flat spines with morocco labels (corners slightly rubbed); Atlas volume quarter calf gilt, flat spine with morocco labels; modern morocco backed cloth boxes. Provenance: Philibert de Rambuteau (inscription on half title).
New, expanded edition of an important travel book encompassing India, China, the islands of the Indian Ocean and South Africa, with considerable additional material by the author and the editor, Sonnini. Pierre Sonnerat was the son of another intrepid traveller, Pierre Poivre (1719-86), with whom he visited the Moluccas and the Philippines in the early 1770s. Sonnerat subsequently travelled widely in the Far East, serving as an official French envoy in India and in 1778 assisting the French forces during the siege of Pondicherry. His Voyage was first published in Paris in two quarto volumes in 1782, and in three quarto volumes later that same year. Sonnini's edition incorporates additional material by Sonnerat on, amongst other subjects, the provinces of China, the Brahmin holy book, Charta-Badi and the wreck of the 'Duras' off the Maldives. This edition also includes material by other authors, notably correspondence by the commandant of Mahé and the French governor-general on the subject of Tippoo Sultan (or "Tippu-Sa<->ib", as Sonnini calls him). Listing Sonnerat's merits in his foreword to this edition, Sonnini particularly notes "le talent d'observation, beaucoup de zèle pour les sciences en général, et un goût éclairé pour l'Histoire naturelle en particulier". Cordier Sinica 2102; Lust 353; Mendelssohn pp.337-8.
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