STRUYS (Jean). Les Voyages de Jean Struys, en Moscovie, en T - Lot 124

STRUYS (Jean). Les Voyages de Jean Struys, en Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes, & en plusieurs autres païs étrangers [...] Relation du Naufrage d'un vaisseau hollandois, nommé Ter Schelling, vers la côte de Bengala [...] Amsterdam, Vve de J. van Meurs, 1681. 2 parts in one volume in-4 (220 x 180mm), [8] f. (frontispiece, title in black and red, table), 360-[14] p., [1] f.bl.; [3] f. (frontis., warn. title), 80 pp. (pp. 61-64 bound between pp. 74 and 75), modern olive-green basane, 5-rib spine, red title page, red edges (spine faded brown, corners rubbed, a few stains and foxing, tiny tear margin. p. 169, some traces of old writing, many plates slightly restored at the fold (at the spine), plate p. 256 missing at the top right, small marginal hole pl. p. 349, many small wet spots in 2nd part). First edition of the French translation by Glanius, based on the Dutch original of 1776, of the relations of the three voyages undertaken by Jean Struys (ca. 1630-1694) to Cape Verde, Madagascar and Thailand, Italy and the Mediterranean islands, and Russia. The illustrations include a folding map of the Caspian Sea and 19 plates (including the frontispiece) featuring views of the cities of Judia, Astracan, Erevan, Schamachy, Schiraz, Ispahan, Muscat...) the islands of Pathmos, Delfes, Tenos, scenes of massacre, torture... The second part contains the story of the shipwreck of the Dutch vessel Ter Schelling on the Bengal coast. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and eight engravings in the text. Provenance: etiquette bookplate "Frédéric et Anne Max"; handwritten bookplate "Jacques Hérault" on the back of many plates, sometimes with a date (1760, 1761 or 1762), details "tisserant en toille" or "Nous avons été marié le 19 may de l'année 1761 Catherine Chenchot" (pl. pp. 320 et 332) - handwritten bookplate on the title "Leconte Issoudun 1867". (Chadenat, 5136; Cordier, Sinica, 2083 et Japonica, 388; Brunet, V, 569).