Author: THEVENOT, Jean.
Title: Gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen. Darde en laatste deel. Uit het Fransch in't Nederduitsch gebracht door G. van Broekhuizen.
Description: Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1688. 2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (soiled). With engraved title-page and 6 engraved pates. (12),235,(6) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1684: Voyages .. contenant la relation de l'Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols & et des autres peuples & pays des Indes. - On the last part of his travels in the Levant the French traveller Jean Thevenot (1633-1667) made excursions into Gujarat, to the Mogul court, and into the Deccan. After exploring India for about a year he returned to Esfahan, where he spent another four months. On his way from Esfahan to Tabriz he became ill and died at Miana in 1667 (Howgego p.1021-1022). Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant (Blackmer 1650). - Interesting description of India. Tiele 1090; Cat. NHSM I, p.257.

Keywords: Asia Dutch travel India