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 29: Voyages dans la Tartarie, le Tibet, la Bukkarie, et de la Chine (suite) & Voyages des Hollandais aux Indes Orientales.
Description: Paris, Didot, 1750. 12mo. (XII)+470 pp. Complete with 3 fold. maps (Mauritius, Bali, Java) & 1 plate. Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with raised bands & 2 title labels. (Title erroneously states "tome trentième", whereas spine, half title & final page correctly state tome 29). VG. ¶ Incl. the 7th & 8th travels of Gerbillion to Emperor Kang-shi in Peking (1697-98); 1st Dutch voyage to the East Indies by Cornelis de Houtman (1595-97), 2nd voyage by Jacob van Neck (1598-99), 3rd voyage by Wybrant Warwijck (1599-1600); description of Java before the Dutch settlement.

Keywords: Topography description of country people maritime Dutch colonial East Indies. Travel journals accounts China Indonesia. d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1595 1700


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