BERNIER (François). Voyage de François Bernier, Contanant le - Lot 25

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BERNIER (François). Voyage de François Bernier, Contanant le - Lot 25
BERNIER (François). Voyage de François Bernier, Contanant le Description des Etats du Grand Mogol, de l'Hindoustan, du Royaume de Kachemire... Amsterdam, Marret, 1699. Two volumes in-12 of 330 pp. (misnumbered 320), 358 pp., 2 frontispices included in the pagination and 11 plates, contemporary brown speckled calf binding, spines decorated, edges speckled. First edition under this title. It gathers the four parts published separately in 1670 and 1671. Fontispices, three maps and eight plates, six of which are folded. Doctor, disciple of Gassendi, François Bernier was one of the most brilliant personalities of his time. Deciding to travel, he visited the Middle East and spent eleven years in India, eight of them as the Emperor Aureng-Zeyb's physician. The protection of Emir Danichmend enabled him to enter Kashmir, a region then virtually unknown to Europeans. His relationship is one of the best and most accurate that one has with India at that time. "Bernier's travels bring to light regions that no European had visited before him, and that have not been better described since" (Hoefer). "Relationship seen as a model of accuracy" (Gay). Tear without missing page 47; important handwritten commentary by a reader of the time on the guards, a loose plate (first volume).
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