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

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Anno di pubblicazione

1937

Luogo di stampa

London. The Golden Cockerel Press

Autore

Lacombe, Sieur Jean De

Edizione

First edition, limited to 300 copies on hand-made paper.

Soggetto

Travel - Asia Malaysia Sumatra

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

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.