TACHARD (Guy). Second voyage du Père Tachard et des Jésuites - Lot 136

TACHARD (Guy). Second voyage du Père Tachard et des Jésuites envoyés par le roy au royaume de Siam. Contenant diverses remarques d'histoire, de physique, de géographie & d'astronomie. A Paris, chez D. Horthemels, 1689. In-4, [4] f., 416 p., [6] f. (table, errata), contemporary brown calf, 5-ribbed spine, tan calf title-piece, fleur-de-lys and repeated numeral decorated on the caissons, boards edged with a large floral roulette, with fleur-de-lys in the spandrels and monogram in the center, all gilt, gilt roulette on the edges, gilt edges (flaws including damaged headbands, rubbed corners, partial split of a jaw; slight soiling of the title and in q.q. of the spine), gilt edges (flaws including damaged headbands, rubbed corners, partial split of a jaw; slight soiling of the title and in q.q. of the spine). soiling to title and qq. margins; plates lacking). First edition of the account of this second voyage by the Jesuit missionary G. Tachard, to Siam in 1687 and 1688. Copy bound with the Jesuit monogram.