Relations de divers voayges [sic] curieux; qui n'ont point esté publiées; : ou qui ont esté traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autres voyageurs anglois, hollandois, portugais, allemands, espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes, et autres auteurs orientaux. Enrichies de figures de plantes non décrites, d'animaux inconnus à l'Europe, & de cartes geographiques de païs on n'a point encore donné de cartes. /
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Chez André Pralard, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'occasion,
M. DC. LXXXIII. [1683]
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| Item Description: | Cf. Bib. Lindesiana, 883-8840 Cf. Camus, A.C. Voyages de Melchisédec Thévenot, 1 Collected by Melchisédec Thévenot Contents for all four volumes printed on verso of title pages of parts 1-4 Errata: pt. 3, p. [12], 1st count; pt. 4, p. [2], 15th count Errors in paging: pt. 1, p. x, 2nd count, misnumbered ii; pt. 3, p. 61, 62, 10th count misnumbered 91, 58; pt. 4, p. 11, 4th count misnumbered 15 Includes text in French, Italian, Greek, Chaldean, Japanese, Tagalog, Arabic, Chinese, Mongolian, Latin, and an archaic wedge writing form, possibly Akkadian Pagination: pt. 1: [12], xxv, [1]; 52; 26, 17-29, 26-40; 12; 80; 6, 9-30; 10, 19-24, 17-24; 35, [1]; 56 p., [14] leaves of plates (1 double, 3 double folded); pt. 2: [12]; 60; 20; 128; 16; 40; 44, 47-48; 4; 30 p., [25] leaves of plates (7 double folded); pt. 3: [12]; 31-68; 12; 27, [1]; 34, 33-54, 57-58, 57-60, 59-76, 73-216 p., [22] leaves of plates (8 double); pt. 4: [6]; 24; 14; 16, 9-23, [1]; 18, 17-23 [i.e. 25], [1]; [2], 24; [2], 16, 4; [2], 16, [3] leaves of plates (1 double); 8; [2], 4; [2], 58; 40 Signatures: pt. 1: ã⁴ (-ã4) ²ã⁴ (-²ã1); [delta]-3[delta]⁴ 4[delta]² (-4[delta]2); [dagger]⁴ ²[dagger]⁴ ³[dagger]⁴ ⁴[dagger]⁴ ⁵[dagger]⁴ ⁶[dagger]⁴ ⁷[dagger]²; a-c⁴ d² (-d2) ²c⁴ ²d² e⁴ (e2, e3, e4 missigned d2, d3, d4) f²; A6⁴ B6²; **A-**B⁴ **D-**L⁴ (**K1, **K2 missigned **I1, **I2); A-C⁴ D²; ã⁴ (̃à2 missigned a2) ẽ⁴ (ẽ2, ẽ3 missigned b2, b3) ĩ⁴; ***A-***D⁴ (***B4 verso blank) ***E²; 4A-4G⁴; pt. 2: [theta]⁴ [unsigned]²; [par.]-7[par.]⁴ [unsigned]²; [flower]A-[flower]B⁴ [flower]C²; [sec.]A-[sec.]Q⁴ ([sec.]P3 missigned [sec.]O3); [sec.]*a-[sec.]*b⁴ ([sec.]*b1 and [sec.]*b2 missigned [sec.]*a1 and [sec.]*a2); [par.]A-[par.]E⁴; [box]A-[box]E⁴ [box]F⁴ (-[box]F4); [unsigned]²; [question mark]a-[question mark]c⁴ [question mark]D⁴ (-[question mark]D4); pt. 3: pi1 ã⁶ (-ã6); [question mark]D4 [question mark]E-[question mark]H⁴ [question mark]I²; [sigma]A⁶; [flower]⁴ ²[flower]⁴ (²[flower]2 and ²[flower]3 missigned B2, B3) 3[flower]⁴ [unsigned]²; (A-(G⁴ ²(G⁴ (H-2D⁴; pt. 4: pi⁴ (-pi4); a-c⁴; *⁴ **⁴ (-**4); A-B⁴ ²B⁴ C⁴ (C4 verso blank); A-C⁴ (C2 missigned C) chi²; pi1 A-C⁴; pi1 A⁴ B⁴ (-B4) ²B⁴ ²A⁴ (-²A4); A-B⁴; [theta]⁴; pi1 a²; pi1 A-E⁴ F-I² (G1 verso blank) K² (-K2); *-***⁴ *****-*******² This is the 1683 issue of Thévenot's Relations, which consists of parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. There is really only one edition of Thévenot's Relations, issued in five parts between 1663 and 1696. Part 1 was first issued in 1663, part 2 in 1664, part 3 in 1666, part 4 during 1672-1674, and part 5 in 1696. During the course of publication the parts of the collection already published were reissued with new title pages in 1664, 1666, 1672, 1683, and 1696. Some sheets were reprinted for these reissues. The contents and arrangement of individual copies vary. For a detailed description of all five parts, their collation and variants, see Contributions to a catalogue of the Lenox Library no. III. The voyages of Thévenot by James Lenox Title pages and some text printed in red and black; woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials "Ambassade des Hollandois a la Chine ...", pt. 3, p. [3]-12, 1st count, has special dated title page with imprint: Paris: Chz [sic] Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666 "Histoire de la Havte Ethiopie / ecrite svr les lievx par le R.P. Manoel d'Almeïda Iesuite, tradvite de la copie portugaise du R.P. Balthazar Tellez. Relations de l'empire des Abyssins, des sovrces dv Nil, de la licorne, &c. / par le R.P. Ieronymo Lobo Iesuite", pt. 4, p. [1-2], 16, 4, 12th through 14th counts, has special dated title page with imprint: Paris: André Cramoisy, 1674; this is followed by "Relations de l'empire des Abyssins, des sovrces dv Nil, de la licorne, &c. Par le R.P. Ieronymo Lobo", pt. 4, p. [1-2], 16, 15th and 16th counts, which has special dated title page with imprint: Paris: André Cramoisy, 1773 "Relation dv voyage dv Sayd, ov De la Thebayde, / fait en 1668. par les P.P. Protais & Charles-François d'Orleans, Capucins missionaires", pt. 4, p. [1-2], 4, 18th-19th counts, has special dated title page with imprint: Paris: André Cramoisy, 1773 "Sinarvm scientia politico-moralis sive Scientiae Sinicae / liber inter Confvcii libros secvndvs", p. [1-2], 1-24, 10th and 11th counts, has initial dated title page with imprint Paris: [s.n], 1672, followed by additional special dated title page in French reading "La science dec Chinois, ov Le livre de Cvm-fv-çu, traduit mot pour mot de la langue chinoise par le R.P. Intorcetta Iesuite" with imprint: Paris: André Cramoisy, 1773 "Voyage dv Sr Acarette a Bvenos-Ayres svr la riviere de la Plate, & delà au Perou. Et l'Indien ov Portrait av naturel des Indiens", pt. 4, p. [5-6], 1st count, has special dated title page with imprint: Paris; André Cramoisy, 1672 |
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| Physical Description: | 4 pts. : ill., maps, ports. ; 36 cm. (fol.) |
| Place of Publication: | France -- Paris |