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CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget

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BON EXEMPLAIRE <strong>DE</strong> CE RÉCIT <strong>DE</strong> VOYAGE EN ASIE CONSERVÉ DANS SON VÉLIN SOUPLE <strong>DE</strong> L’ÉPOQUE.<br />

Provenance : inscription manuscrite sur le titre « F. Fulgence de Paris capucin », ex libris héraldique<br />

de Louis de Vienne gravé sur cuivre par J. Gosset.<br />

First French edition of this precious relation of Father Marini who lived during 14 years in Tonquin.<br />

He gives a detailed description of the situation of Laos and Tonquin in the first half of the 17 th century,<br />

enriched with lots of information communicated by Father Leria.<br />

« This work is full of a variety of topics connected with the civil, political, military, agricultural, and<br />

commercial state of Tonquin; nor is it deficient in what relates to the natural history, and the manners,<br />

religion, &c. of the inhabitants”. (A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, R. Kerr, n° 743).<br />

The present text is one of the earliest sources of information about Laos and its inhabitants.<br />

A good copy of this account of a travel to Asia preserved in its contemporary limp vellum.

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