BEAUJEU, Chevalier de [= François Paulin DALAIRAC]. - Memoires du Chevalier de Beaujeu. Contenant ses divers voyages, tant en Pologne, en Allemagne, qu'en Hongrie...Amsterdam, heirs of Antoine Schelte, 1700.With: (2) [LACERDA, Fernando Correa de (author) and Michel BLOUIN DE LA PIQUETIERRE (translator)]. Relation des troubles arrivez dans la cour de Portugal en l'année 1667. & en l'année 1668. Amsterdam, suivant la copie [= A Wolfgang?], 1674.2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on each title-page (not identical: a dog against a tree in ad 1 and a globe in ad 2) and with a woodcut endpiece. Contemporary vellum.

[8], 496; [1], [1 blank], 272 pp.Ad 1: First edition of the memoires of Chevalier de Beaujeu, pseudonym of François Paulin Dalairac (died 1691), a French Roman Catholic Capuchin priest, writer and translator. After having travelled in Poland, Germany, and Hungary, the author rectifies many mistakes in the maps as to distances of places; he gives a particular account of these countries, and most especially of Poland, and all things relating to it. Ad 2: French translation printed in Amsterdam of a work on the troubles in the court of Portugal during the years 1667-1668.Title-page of the second work waterstained. Good copiesl Ad 1: V. Gestel - Van het Schip, Maps in Books of Russia and Poland 71; ad 2: Barbier IV, col. 223; Willems, Les Elzevier, 'Annexes' 1882.

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