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Author: TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptist and Jan Hendrik Glazemaker (translator). Title: De zes reizen van de heer J. Bapt. Tavernier, Baron van Aubonne, die hy, gedurende de tijt van veertig jaren, in Turkijen, Persiën, en in d'Indiën, langs alle de wegen, die derwaarts strekken, gedaan heeft. Eerste [Tweede; Darde] deel; ...Including:Nieuwe en naaukeurige beschryving van 't serrail of hof van de Turksche Kaizer; ...Afbeeltsels der goude, silvere, en kopere stukken en der schilpen en amandelen, die in geheel Asia voor munt gangbaar zijn.Amsterdam, widow of Johannes van Someren, 1682. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and engraved author's portrait in volume one, two folding engraved maps in volume 2, and a total of 67 engraved plates, including 27 folding. Some of the plates signed by Jan Luyken. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum, with title in ink on spine, modern endpapers.
Description: [40], 576, 126, [2]; [2], 436, [2]; [2], 307, [1 blank], [2] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation with newly engraved plates of an account of the voyages undertaken by the French Huguenot traveller and jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689). "Jean-Baptiste was to make six major journeys from Paris, as well as a number of minor excursions, but although he left an exceptionally detailed account of his travels, the precise chronology is sometimes difficult to establish" (Howgego). He knew the overland trade routes (the historical silk road) through Persia better than any other European in the seventeenth century. His major travels are described in this book, divided into 3 parts. The first parts describes Tavernier's travels through Europe, Turkey and Persia, accompanied by 19 engraved plates. Embarking from Paris, he travels through Europe to Isfahan via Constantinople (Istanbul), Smyrna (Izmir) and Tabriz. On another journey he reaches Isfahan via Marseille, Alexandretta, Aleppo, Meshed, Basra and Shiraz, also giving a description of Hormuz. He travels back from Isfahan via the Black Sea and Moscow. Several chapters deal with the history of the places he visits, commenting on Persia's flora and fauna, religion, customs, kings and government, language and a general history. Included at the end of the first part is a description the Ottoman sultan's court, with an individual title-page.The second part is devoted to Tavernier's voyages to India, visiting Agra, Goa and Delhi. He stayed at the Mogul court, and gives an extensive description of the Mogul empire, its rulers and population and their religion and customs. Several chapters are devoted to the mines, diamonds and precious stones that can be found in India. After his stay at the court, Tavernier joined a Dutch VOC vessel on its way to Batavia (Java), depicted on one of the engraved plates. He visited several kingdoms and islands in southeast Asia and Indonesia, including Bhutan, Ceylon, Siam and Makassar. In Batavia he describes the Dutch trade, the coins in use, a funeral, and the relation between the Dutch and the native inhabitants, describing several occasions of natives killing the Dutch rulers.The third and last part deals with southeast Asia and Japan, including a map of the Tonkin bay and a map of Japan. Among other things, he describes the persecution of Christians in Japan, the kingdom of Tonkin, and the trade in Asia. One chapter is devoted entirely to the Dutch trade and VOC in Asia and Indonesia, with sections on several VOC generals and their rule, the corruption within the VOC, the general character of the Dutch, and their relationships with other powers, like Portugal and England. Included at the end is a valuable chapter on the coins which are in use in the regions Tavernier travelled, with 14 engraved plates, each depicting several coins.The present Dutch translation contains more plates than the original French, and are according to some reference works more beautiful. Around 20 of the engraved plates with historical scenes are signed by the famous Dutch engraver Jan Luyken, and several unsigned plates can be attributed to him as well.With the explanatory leaves of the two maps bound in volume 1 (while the maps are in the second volume). Lacking one plate in the second volume, the plate facing p. 172. Some occasional minor foxing and, mostly marginal, water stains. Binding slightly stained, with new endpapers. Overall in good condition.l Feith, Catalogus der verzameling van boeken en prenten betrekking hebbende op de stad Batavia 139; Howgego, to 1800, T14; STCN 84080718X; Tiele, Bibl 1080-1081; for Jan Luyken see: Klaversma & Hannema 1396-1397, 1402-1405.
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Price: EUR 4000.00 = appr. US$ 4347.39 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V. - Book number: J6MB6RXSCVBC
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