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JOSEPH TISSANIER (1618-1688)
Relation du Voyage depuis la France, jusqu'au Royaume de Tunquin. Paris: Edme Martin, 1663. 8° (166 x 105mm). (Dampstained, some spotting in the first and last few leaves and the margins of some others, short tears in the margins of the first few leaves, small loss in the top margin of N3-6 affecting one letter.) Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. (Label chipped, extremities lightly rubbed, one gathering nearly detached but holding, free endpapers adhering to pastedowns.) Provenance: Convent of the Friars Minor Recollects, Paris (title inscription).
FIRST EDITION of the Jesuit Father Tissanier's substantial account of his three year mission to Tonkin. Rare: ABPC records one copy (Sotheby's, 26 June, 1986); AE records the La Roche-Guyon copy (Sotheby's Monaco, 9 December, 1987). Cf. Howgego I, R34.
Relation du Voyage depuis la France, jusqu'au Royaume de Tunquin. Paris: Edme Martin, 1663. 8° (166 x 105mm). (Dampstained, some spotting in the first and last few leaves and the margins of some others, short tears in the margins of the first few leaves, small loss in the top margin of N3-6 affecting one letter.) Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. (Label chipped, extremities lightly rubbed, one gathering nearly detached but holding, free endpapers adhering to pastedowns.) Provenance: Convent of the Friars Minor Recollects, Paris (title inscription).
FIRST EDITION of the Jesuit Father Tissanier's substantial account of his three year mission to Tonkin. Rare: ABPC records one copy (Sotheby's, 26 June, 1986); AE records the La Roche-Guyon copy (Sotheby's Monaco, 9 December, 1987). Cf. Howgego I, R34.