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Livres anciens et modernes

Lacombe, Sieur Jean De

A Compendium of the East being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies made by the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland

1937

240,64 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1937
Lieu d'édition
London. The Golden Cockerel Press
Auteur
Lacombe, Sieur Jean De
Edition
First edition, limited to 300 copies on hand-made paper.
Thème
Travel - Asia Malaysia Sumatra
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

sm folio; 209, [i], double page plates, double page facsimile from orig manuscript, ep maps from contemp Mercator atlas, bibliog, glossary of place names, index. original quarter cloth and cloth decorated bds, slight wear at ends of spine but a fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This is the first publication, from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681 with an English translation from the old French by Stephanie & Denis Clark, with an introduction and notes by Ashley Gibson. Jean de Lacombe traveled through Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Ternat, Nambonne, Gounong Apy, Siam, Moluccas, China, etc, in the seventeenth century. The plates are from contemporary engravings of some of the principle places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse, Amsterdam, 1676. A lovely production of this early and interesting travel narrative based on the manuscript discovered in 1937 with a useful introduction and bibliography.