francois pyrard albert gray (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 330.

Zustand: New. pp. 1024.

Zustand: New. pp. 1024.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Summary:The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602-1607, Pyrard de Laval learnt the local language and studied the culture, flora and fauna of the islands. On his escape to Goa he continued his cultural investigations in Portuguese India, before returning to France by way of Saint Helena and Brazil in 1611. His book, which included practical advice for French traders travelling to Asia and a phrase book for visitors to the Maldives, was an immediate success. This three-volume translation of the 1619 edition appeared in 1887-1890.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 316 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

First edition. lviii, 452 pp.; xlvii, 287 pp.; 4, xii, [289-572] pp. Illus. with 2 b/w folding maps and 21 engravings, drawings and reproductions. 8vo. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 76, 77 and 80. Harry Charles Purvis Bell, ass't. Originally published with title: Discours du voyage des Francois aux Indes orientales . par Fran. Pyrard. Paris, 1611. Attributed also to Pierre de Bergeron and Jerome Bignon. Vol. I covers from 1601 to Pyrard's arrival at Goa in 1608. Vol. II (part I) covers from 1608 to Pyrard's departure from Goa in 1610 and has continuous main pagination with First Series 80. Vol. II (part II) covers 1610-1611, the return to France. With a treatise on animals, trees, and fruits, and advice upon the voyage to the East Indies. The supplementary material includes the 1889 annual report. "Francois Pyrard de Laval. wrote works which stand in the very first rank of those which enabled their contemporaries to gain some idea of the country which they had visited," (Oaten p. 116). "Pyrard's travels covered the years between 1601 and 1611, and have crowded into them a welter of shipwrecks, imprisonments, and other adventures such as seldom falls to a man without leaving him permanently scarred. .His first-hand experiences and acquaintance with various parts of the mainland of India and the islands of the Archipelago make his record a valuable repository of geographical and historical knowledge of the East. Especially has it been commended for his account of the Maldive Islands," (Cox, p.290). Borba de Moraes II, 169. Rodrigues 2008. National Maritime Museum 411. Oaten 265. Cox I: 290. Spines sunned and a few small tears to heads of two volumes, small institutional bookplate to front pastedowns, owner's nautical bookplate opposite, light foxing to Vol. I title page; otherwise very good unopened (uncut) copies. Original blue cloth stamped in blind, gilt vignette of ship on front boards, spines ruled in blind, gilt titles, yellow endpapers.