Lot 130
Tachard (Guy) Voyage de Siam, des peres Jesuites, envoyez par le Roy aux Indes & a la Chine..., first edition, Paris, A.Seneuze & D.Horthemels, 1686.
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Tachard (Guy) Voyage de Siam, des peres Jesuites, envoyez par le Roy aux Indes & a la Chine..., first edition, engraved title-vignette, head-pieces and initial, 15 engraved plates, 6 folding, and 5 folding maps & plans, title and text lightly browned, handsome modern mottled russia, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, pastepaper endpapers, 4to, Paris, A.Seneuze & D.Horthemels, 1686.
⁂ An excellent copy with fine engraved plates of natives and reptiles of South Africa, and elephants, ginseng root, costumes and Royal Barges of Siam. Tachard accompanied the French envoy Chaumont on his mission to Siam in 1685.
Description
Tachard (Guy) Voyage de Siam, des peres Jesuites, envoyez par le Roy aux Indes & a la Chine..., first edition, engraved title-vignette, head-pieces and initial, 15 engraved plates, 6 folding, and 5 folding maps & plans, title and text lightly browned, handsome modern mottled russia, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, pastepaper endpapers, 4to, Paris, A.Seneuze & D.Horthemels, 1686.
⁂ An excellent copy with fine engraved plates of natives and reptiles of South Africa, and elephants, ginseng root, costumes and Royal Barges of Siam. Tachard accompanied the French envoy Chaumont on his mission to Siam in 1685.
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