HERBERT (Thomas). Relation du voyage de Perse et des Indes O - Lot 97

HERBERT (Thomas). Relation du voyage de Perse et des Indes Orientales. Translated from the English of Thomas Herbert. Avec les Révolutions arrivées au royaume de Siam l'an mil six cens quarante-sept, translated from the Flemish by Jérémie Vliet. Paris, Jean Du Puis, 1663. In-4, (6)-632-(24) p., contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed, gilt title, edges blotched, headpieces and corners restored (spine rubbed, stains to boards, light wetness at foot of pages throughout; snag affecting a few letters on page 72; marginal paper loss on page 201). € First edition of the French translation by the Dutch diplomat Abraham de Wicquefort. Thomas Herbert (1606-1682) was part of the English embassy led by Sir Dodmore Cotton and sent by Charles I to Persia, to the court of Shah Abbas I. His journey took him to Madagascar, Goa, Surat, Isfahan, Baghdad and the Moluccas. The account of the author's diplomatic journey is followed by Jeremias van Vliet's historical account of the death of the King of Siam in 1647 (pp. 569-632). A sample of the Malacca language appears on pages 511-514. The most complete work on Persia in the 17th century, considered one of the best on the subject. (Boucher de la Richarderie IV, 459; Cordier, Indosinica, 875; Cordier, Sinica, 2082). Provenance: Bibliothèque du prieuré Saint-Eloi des Barnabites de Paris (stamp and handwritten bookplate on title).