Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées

1696 Thevenot Voyages Curious CHINA Ethiopia MAPS Jeronimo Lobo MEXICO Spain

Malechisedech Thevenot was a 17th-century French historian, known for an extensive list of scholarship. One of his best works was 'Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux' – a collection of descriptions of various world discoveries.

Notable contents found in this book include:

· Chinese Empires: Xanxi, Xangtung, Honan, Sushuen, Kiangsi, Kinagnan, Quangtung,

· Japanese Empires

· Ethiopian history, lower and upper Ethiopia

· Giovanni Grueber in China

· Life of Confucius

· Voyages of Jerónimo Lobo

· History of Mexico and Spanish voyages in Central America

· Portuguese conquests in the orient

This highly valuable and extremely desirable volume contains 15 full-page and double-page engravings, illustrations that are known to be extracted and framed. It is incredibly rare to find these illustrations still intact in the book itself.

Item number: #21339

Price: $3500

THEVENOT, Melchisédech

Relations de divers voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées…

Paris : Chez Thomas Moette, 1696.

Details:

· Collation: Volume 2 (of 2)

o Each section with separate pagination

Pagination errors expected

o 15 engraved plates and maps, 63 numbered in-text figures

· Language: French

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure

· Size: ~13.25in X 9in (34cm x 23cm)

· Exceedingly rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at $5,000 for this volume

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