CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget
CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget
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.