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THEVENOT, Melchisedec (1620-1692). Relations de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées. Et qu'on a traduit ou tiré des Originaux des Voyageurs François, Espagnols, Allemands, Portugais, Anglois, Hollandois, Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Paris: Chez Thomas Moette, 1696.
Four parts in two volumes, 2o (342 x 223 mm). General title printed in red and black, section titles in part IV, 11 folding maps, 4 woodcut profiles, 10 double-page or folding plates, 10 single-page plates of views and portaits, 2 engraved alphabets (one double-page) and 11 engraved illustrations in text, 46pp. woodcut pictograms to Gage's Mexico, head- and tail-pieces. (Some minor marginal worming.) Contemporary calf (rebacked in an antique style preserving old spine labels).
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION WITH THE RARE TASMAN MAP. Thevenot's notable compilation is substantially concerned with Asia and the East Indies with the latest notices of commercial and missionary voyages, many made by personal acquaintances whom Thevenot interviewed. As each narrative has separate pagination, the order of binding can differ in various copies. This set conforms to the listing in the "Catalogue" with a slight variation in the order of the fourth part, and the fragment in Spanish "de las Islas de Salomon (pp. 5-8 and pp. 13-16) as well as the "Asganii Sassonii" (pp. 17-48) bound in at end. This edition is a re-issue with new titles and other mainly minor changes originally issued between 1663 and 1672. This edition has the separate title-pages for Part IV of the "Relation," Paris: Chez André Cramoisy, 1672; for the "Sinarum Scientia Politico-Moralis," Paris, 1672; and for Thomas Gage's '"Histoire de l'Empire Mexicain," Paris: Chez Thomas Moette, 1696. The collation is highly complex (see Brunet V:810-813) and it is not clear what constitutes the ideal copy. The folding map in Vol. I showing Tasman's route accompanies the voyage of François Pelsart and his "discovery" of "Terre Australe" in 1629. Alden & Landis 696/214; Brunet V:810-813; Cordier Japonica 33; Cordier Sinica 1944; JCB (3) IV:335-341; Lust 260 (listing the voyages to China); Palau 331564; Sabin 95334. (2)
Four parts in two volumes, 2
A FINE SET OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION WITH THE RARE TASMAN MAP. Thevenot's notable compilation is substantially concerned with Asia and the East Indies with the latest notices of commercial and missionary voyages, many made by personal acquaintances whom Thevenot interviewed. As each narrative has separate pagination, the order of binding can differ in various copies. This set conforms to the listing in the "Catalogue" with a slight variation in the order of the fourth part, and the fragment in Spanish "de las Islas de Salomon (pp. 5-8 and pp. 13-16) as well as the "Asganii Sassonii" (pp. 17-48) bound in at end. This edition is a re-issue with new titles and other mainly minor changes originally issued between 1663 and 1672. This edition has the separate title-pages for Part IV of the "Relation," Paris: Chez André Cramoisy, 1672; for the "Sinarum Scientia Politico-Moralis," Paris, 1672; and for Thomas Gage's '"Histoire de l'Empire Mexicain," Paris: Chez Thomas Moette, 1696. The collation is highly complex (see Brunet V:810-813) and it is not clear what constitutes the ideal copy. The folding map in Vol. I showing Tasman's route accompanies the voyage of François Pelsart and his "discovery" of "Terre Australe" in 1629. Alden & Landis 696/214; Brunet V:810-813; Cordier Japonica 33; Cordier Sinica 1944; JCB (3) IV:335-341; Lust 260 (listing the voyages to China); Palau 331564; Sabin 95334. (2)