ASIA - [FERMANEL de FAVERY (Luc) & PALLU (François)]. Re - Lot 4

ASIA - [FERMANEL de FAVERY (Luc) & PALLU (François)]. Relation des missions des évesques françois aux Royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonkin, &c. A Paris, Chez Pierre Le Petit, Edme Couterot, Charles Angot, 1674. In-8, limp vellum (contemporary binding). VERY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION, one of the first works to describe the kingdoms of the Far East between 1666 and 1671. This chronicle was compiled by missionaries Pierre Lambert de la Motte, Louis Chevreuil, Antoine Hainques and Pierre Brindeau, who worked for the Missions étrangères de Paris, under the authority of Bishop François Pallu. Fermanel de Favery, superior of the seminary for the Missions, signs the epistle dedicated to Cardinal de Bouillon. The work contains descriptions of the local populations, the islands of Cape Verde, the Bay of Mozambique, Surat, Siam (Thailand), Cambodia and Cochinchina, as well as the state of Christianity in these regions. Copy from the Monastère de l'Annonciade Céleste, Paris, according to the handwritten bookplate on the title. Wear and tear, small worm gallery on inner edge of first 19 leaves.