Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS (BOIS, J.P.J. DU, ed.),
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome onzième: Voyages des Hollandois aux Indes Orientales (suite) & Voyages des François aux Indes Orientales.
Description: La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1755. Nouvelle édition. 4to. VIII+412+(IV) pp. Complete with 16 maps/plans (incl. 13 fold.) & 23 plates (incl. 9 fold., all engr.). Hardcover. Late 19th-century half calf with 2 gilt-lettered title labels on spine, marbled boards & endpapers. (Occas. foxing/browning, mainly to prel. pages; first map bound upside down). VG. ¶ Incl. history & description of the Moluccas, incl. Amboina, Banda; voyage of Robert Knox to Ceylon, description of the Dutch settlements in Ceylon; voyages of Rennefort (Madagascar), La Haye, Carré, L'Estra to the East Indies, John Ovington (Suratte), description of the Kingdom of Arrakan, voyage of Rhodes, description of Tonkin. - Maps/plans and views of the Moluccas, Amboine, Buro, Ceylon, Madagascar, Ile de Bourbon, Suratte, Siam, Tonkin, etc. - Landwehr VOC, 265. - The Hague quarto ed., mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions.

Keywords: Topography description of country people . maritime Dutch Company VOC French colonies colonial. Moluccas Maluku Ambon Indonesia Sri Lanka Ceylon Indo China East Asia South & Southeast India d'exiles antoine francois abbe p.j. 1590 1740


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