THEVENOT (Melchisedech). - Lot 151

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THEVENOT (Melchisedech). - Lot 151
THEVENOT (Melchisedech). Relation of various trips that have not been published. Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, André Cramoisy, 1666-64-66-72-73. Five parts in two volumes in folio, contemporary tawny calf binding, spines decorated with suns, speckled edges. Very rare union of the five parts in first editions (the first in second edition). They are illustrated with the following pieces: Part I: 4 folding or double-page copper-engraved maps (Clochide; Indostan; Basra; Terre Australe); 3 single and 1 double copper-engraved plates outside the text, 8 figures in text, one wood in the text. Part II: 3 copper-engraved folding maps (Coasts of East Africa, Arabia and India; China, Southeast Asia, Japan; Sierra Leone); 6 copper-engraved non-text plates and 4 wood-engraved plates; 2 figures in text engraved on copper half page. Part III: 2 folding maps (Chinese Empire - bound in the first volume; Road from Canton to Beijing); 11 copper-engraved non-text plates, 5 of which are folding. Part IV: 1 woodcut folding plate (Entrance to some Red Sea ports); one figure in text on copper; 46 pages of woodcut Mexican pictograms giving 63 figures. In total: 9 copper-engraved folding or double-page maps, including the very first map in French of Australia, 21 copper-engraved non-text plates and 5 wood-engraved plates, 11 copper-engraved text figures, one wood in text and 46 pages of wood-engraved pictograms. Detailed snacks of the texts and plates on request. A valuable collection that is rarely found complete, each of the five parts being composed of separate pieces, printed and published by the author over time. Passionate about travel accounts, appointed as the keeper of the Royal Library in 1684, Thévenot used his extensive knowledge of oriental geography, history and languages to collect and publish this important collection of accounts, mainly concerning Asia, but also Africa, America and Oceania. The rarest pieces, forming the fifth p
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