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TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste

"De zes reizen van de heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, Baron van Aubonne; die hy, gedurende de tijt van veertig jaren, in Turkijen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, l ... Eerste deel; daar in van Turkijen, Persiën en 't Serrail gehandelt word"

Amsterdam
wed. Johannes van Someren
1682

€200 - €300

4to, [36]- 576, 126-[2] pp. Dutch translation by J.H. Glazemaker. Frontispiece, 6 (of 8) full-page and 15 folding plates depicting views of Bagdad, Bandar Abbas and Kandahar, battle scenes, ceremonies, shooting games at Isfahan, torture methods (the stoning of a boy, the burning of swindlers, building four walls around a convict, pounding to death in a mortar), animals, Persian calligraphy, throne room of the serail, the Sultan hunting, etc. Lacking half-title, portrait and 2 plates. Some lvs. foxed. Old brown calf binding, spine and corners professionally restored, new end lvs

"Two more parts were published, on India and Japan, not present here. Ref. Tiele 1080 ; Klaversma & Hannema 1396-7 & 1402-5 ; Brunet V:680-682 ; Atabey 1199-1201 ; Blackmer 321-322"

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