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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 179 pp. ; portrait, maps (partly folded) facsimiles ; 26 cm ; LCCN: 53-17102 ; OCLC: 1956309 ; LC: Z1207; Dewey: 016.973 ; "Seven hundred copies printed" ; marbled paper on red cloth, in silvered brown paper-covered slipcase ; numerous foldouts with facsimiles of important documents and published sources of American history, including Letter by Christopher Columbus, Virginia RIchly Valued, Description of Louisiana, A Brief Relation of North Virginia, The Seaman's Grammar, Bay Psalm Book, Plain Truth, etc, etc ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

qui n'ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d'Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d'autresVoyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux.Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d'Animaux inconnus à l'Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Paysdont on n'a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, 1663-1664 [Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666] [André Cramoisy, 1672]. Four parts in two volumes, folio, matching contemporary bindings of mottled calf, spines with raised bands tooled and lettered in gilt; marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Part 1. title-leaf in red and black, pp. [12], xxv, 1-52, 1-24, 17-26, 17-29, 26-31, 36-40, 1-12, 1-80, 1-30, 1-10, 19-24, 1-36, 1-56, with 4 folding maps (3 double-page), 2 folding double-page plates, 3 full-page plates and numerous smaller plates in the text. Part 2. title-leaf, pp. [9], 1-20, 1-60, 1-128, 1-40, 1-16, 1-44, 47-48, 1-4, 1-30, with 8 folding double-page plates (including 5 coastal profiles), 3 full-page plates, 3 smaller plates in the text, 1 folding map. Part 3. title-leaf, pp. [12], 31-68, 1-12, 1-28, 1-216 (frequent misnumbering), with 11 plates (3 double-page), 2 folding double-page maps. Part 4. title-leaf, pp. [2], 1-24, 1-14, 1-[24], 1-23, [blank], 1-24, 1-16, 1-16, 1-8, 1-4, [2], 1-45, [blank], 47-58, 1-40, with 2 small plates in the text, 46 woodcuts, and 2 folding maps. The first edition of each of the first four parts of Thévenot?s monumental work. Amongst travel collections of the seventeenth century, Thévenot?s occupies a distinguished place, being one of the most complete and lavishly produced. Its scope includes Africa, the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Australia and other regions.The narrative of Abel Tasman on Australia is certainly one of the most significant and primary sources of information on the island continent. The collection is also of great American interest, containing Palafox?s study on the natives, Acarette du Biscay?s relation of La Plata, and Gage?s narrative, which includes an important passage on Mexico, and is profusely illustrated with full-page woodcuts. Asia and Africa are also well represented, with over half of the first volume being dedicated to these regions. The work is illustrated with maps and views. The maps include the famous Tasman map of Australia (Hollandia Nova) in its fifth state (with rhumb lines and the Tropic of Capricorn, and '19' added at top right). The importance of this map can hardly be overstated: it is a cornerstone of Australian cartography, both as the earliest obtainable map of the region as well as the predominant depiction by which the West would know the island for about a century. Amongst the numerous other maps are one of Japan and Pegu (usually lacking) and charts of the Indies, China, Hindustan, and East Africa; the plates include depictions of costumes, plants, and architecture. Thévenot?s work is an exceedingly difficult book to collate: 'Bibliographers have expended great pains on the collation of the Thévenot collection' (Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library, vol. III, 102); 'Collection interessante, dont il est difficile de trouver des exemplaires complets' (Brunet). Thévenot?s collection was published in parts and over roughly 10 years, thus there are virtually no two copies alike. The first part went to the printer in 1663, the second and third in 1664 and 1666, and the fourth in 1672; a fifth part was being prepared at the time of Thévenot's death, leaving the work uncompleted. Sabin?s note is very enlightening regarding this issue: 'It will be understood from this that there really was only one edition of Thévenot, and as that edition was completed only in 1696, the issue bearing that year on its general title-page is ordinarily regarded as the standard for collation' (JCBL). Brunet, Manuel du Libraire et de L? Amateur de Livres, V, pp. 810-13; Palau 331563.…

First edition of the first French book on swimming and one of the earliest books on the subject in an era when most Europeans, even sailors, could not swim. The book was widely read during the 18th century, including by Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth. The book is illustrated with 35 engraved plates by Charles Moette of people swimming. Thévenot describes a breaststroke executed with the face out of the water and an underwater arm recovery (the stage of a stroke when the limbs relax and return to the starting position). After the English translation of Thevenot's work became the standard swimming reference, the breaststroke remained the most common stroke used by swimmers for centuries. In his preface, Thévenot rightly claims his book to be the first on the subject in French, the only preceding works known to him in any language being Nicolas Wynman's Colymbetes (1538) and Sir Everard Digby's short Latin tract De arte natandi (1589, translated into English in 1595). Thévenot, who was a scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat, is often confused with his nephew, the traveller Jean de Thévenot. Duodecimo (149 x 82 mm). With 35 engraved plates. Attractive 18th-century French mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with flower tools, sides with triple gilt rules, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved bookplate of Jean-François Gillet, écuyer (squire), 1778; small modern MK bookplate. A little rubbing to extremities, title leaf lightly spotted, else an excellent copy of this charming book.…

First volume (of three as numbered, but intended for binding as two) of Thévenot's travels in the Levant in the years 1655 to 1659, including Constantinople, the Holy Land and Egypt, and his further travels to Arabia, Mecca and elsewhere. In the Dutch editions volume 1 is more extensive than volumes 2 and 3, and in the 1723/24 and 1731 editions (both called the second edition on the title-pages) volume 3 has only a divisional title-page, so it was clearly the intention to bind volumes 2 and 3 together, making two volumes of about equal length. The present copy is volume 1 of this 1731 edition.With an 18th-century(?) bookseller's note on an endleaf. With marginal chips in the engraved title-page, a few leaves somewhat browned, but in good condition and with large margins. The binding is worn. A detailed account of travels in the Levant, beautifully illustrated from the plates made for it by Jan Luyken in 1681.l V. Eeghen & V.d. Keller 47 note; Klaversma & Hannema 1416; Landwehr 258 note; Tiele, Bibl. 1090 note. 18th-century half calf (sewn on 4 cords), sprinkled-paper sides, refurbished in the 19th century and with a 20th-century spine label. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with a woodcut ornament, standing portrait of the author in Eastern garb (with globe, map and his coat of arms), 19 engraved plates (including 2 folding) drawn, etched and engraved by Jan Luyken, 2 woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Pages: [4], 484, [4] pp.…