Author: MARINI, GIOVANNI FILIPPO DE:
Title: Histoire nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao, contenant une description exacte de leur origine, grandeur et éstendue; de leurs richesses, & de leurs forces, des mÏurs, & du naturel de leurs habitants; de la fertlilité de ces contrées, & des rivières qui les arrosent de tous costéz, & de plusieurs autres circonstances utiles et necessaires pour une plus grande intelligence de la géographie. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (x), 184, 181-284, 289-328; (ii), 329-436. Pagination irregular but text is complete. Some minor staining. Contemporary calf with gilt bevelled edges, expertly rebacked to style with spine richly decorated in compartments and with title label, sprinkled red edges. First French edition of the sections about Tonkin and Laos in Marini's "Delle missioni dé padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino" (1663).The second part has a separate title "Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao" and is only devoted to Laos. Marini was an Italian Jesuit who served for more than forty years as missionary in Asia (Tonkin, Macao and Japan) in the 17th century. He died at Macao in 1682. This work comprises valuable and accurate information about the countries and their inhabitants not previously published. Backer & Sommervogel V, 583. Cordier BI 1046. Cordier BJ 377. See Löwendahl 1493 who writes "that the book was apparently originally thought to end with the printing of the first part since it ends with "Fin" on page 327. When the second part was added most likely the second title leaf was meant to be cancelled".
Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, laos, lao, vietnamese, tunquin, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration
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Title: Histoire nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao, contenant une description exacte de leur origine, grandeur et éstendue; de leurs richesses, & de leurs forces, des mÏurs, & du naturel de leurs habitants; de la fertlilité de ces contrées, & des rivières qui les arrosent de tous costéz, & de plusieurs autres circonstances utiles et necessaires pour une plus grande intelligence de la géographie. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (x), 184, 181-284, 289-328; (ii), 329-436. Pagination irregular but text is complete. Some minor staining. Contemporary calf with gilt bevelled edges, expertly rebacked to style with spine richly decorated in compartments and with title label, sprinkled red edges. First French edition of the sections about Tonkin and Laos in Marini's "Delle missioni dé padri della Compagnia di Giesu nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino" (1663).The second part has a separate title "Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao" and is only devoted to Laos. Marini was an Italian Jesuit who served for more than forty years as missionary in Asia (Tonkin, Macao and Japan) in the 17th century. He died at Macao in 1682. This work comprises valuable and accurate information about the countries and their inhabitants not previously published. Backer & Sommervogel V, 583. Cordier BI 1046. Cordier BJ 377. See Löwendahl 1493 who writes "that the book was apparently originally thought to end with the printing of the first part since it ends with "Fin" on page 327. When the second part was added most likely the second title leaf was meant to be cancelled".
Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, laos, lao, vietnamese, tunquin, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration
Price: EUR 2800.00 = appr. US$ 3043.17 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100524
- Book number: 100524
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