Compendium of the East Being An Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies
Jean de Lacombe, Stephanie & Denis Clark, Ashley Gibson
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Book Details:
Publisher:Golden Cockerel Press
Published Date:30th November -0001
Binding:Hardback
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:The Golden Cockerel Press, London,1st thus 1937. 1 volume, small in-folio, 210 pp., illustrated with 6 double-page engravings, bound in publisher's cloth, original batik boards, This is the first publication, from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681, with an English translation from the old French by Stephanie & Denis Clark, Edited with an introduction and notes by Ashley Gibson. Jean de Lacombe traveled through Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Ternat, Nambonne, Gounongapy, Siam, Moluccas, China in the seventeenth century. The plates are from contemporary engravings of some of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse, Amsterdam, 1676. The Maps used as end-papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. The copy 62 of a limited edition of 300 copies in Perpetua Type on Arnold's hand-made paper (No 183).; with bookplate of Sir Michael Oppenheimer the noted historian
