Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS, Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 32: Voyages des Hollandois et des François aux Indes Orientales.
Description: Paris, Didot, 1750. 12mo. (III)+512 pp. Complete with 2 fold. plans (Batavia), 3 fold. maps (Ceylon, Fort Dauphin Madagascar, Isle de Bourbon), 3 fold. plates (plants & fruits of Madagascar), 6 plts. (scenes in Ceylon). Hardcover. Contemp. calf, spine gilt, with raised bands & 2 title labels). (Tear in 1 fold. plate closed, repaire in blank margin of fold. map). VG. ¶ Incl. description of Batavia; Voyages of Robert Knox to Ceylon in 1660 & 1679; Description of Ceylon in 1679; Voyages to Madagascar by Rennefort in 1665/66 and by Mondevergue in 1666/71; Description of Madagascar; Voyage of De La-Haie to Bourbon Island and India in 1670/75.
Keywords: Colonial expansion. Topography description of country people Dutch Indies. colonies colonial. French maritime overseas. Jakarta Batavia Java Indonesia Sri Lanka Ceylon Malagasy Madagascar islands Islands Indian Ocean East Africa d'exiles antoine francois
Price: EUR 475.00 = appr. US$ 516.25 Seller: Charbo's Antiquariaat
- Book number: 58138
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