4 volumes in 2. Folio (334 by 230mm). Text in French and Greek, title-pages printed in red and black, 3 of the 4 title-pages match those for the fourth part, and are dated 1672 (see Brunet V, 810), with original Roman numerals (1663 and 1664) altered in early manuscript; full vellum over paste- board, title in manuscript of the spines, some minor restoration.
Collation
Part I: [4] leaves, 52 pages, with map of Colchide; 1-26; 17-40; 12 pages
with map of India under Mogol; 80 pages; 30 pages; 1-10; 19-24; 17-24; 35 pages; [1] page; 56 pages with map of Australia; XXV; [1] with two plates of Egyptian mummies; bound without 2 plates with Caldean characters, and one map of Bassora. Part II: [8] leaves, 20 pages; 60 pages with 4 plates of Arabic coasts; 128 pages with map of Serloine; 40 pages with map of China and Philippines; 16 pages; 48 pages with plate justice en iapon between pages 45 and 46; 4 pages; 26 pages; bound without, 1 map of Arabia, 1 map of Pegu et Japon, and 2 leaves of text (pages 27-30, last part on China).
Volume two, part IV: La science des Chinois with its own title-page; pp.[4] 14, 24, 16, 16, 8, [4] 58, 40, 23 [1], 24, 4 with one folding engraved plate; part III: engraved frontispiece titled Ambassade des Hollandois a la Chine (1666); pp. [8] 68, 216, 12 with 15 engraved plates, including 2 large folding maps, and one folding table.
Part IV: [2] leaves, 14 pages; 24 pages; 16 pages; 16 pages; 8 pages; 4 pages; map of the Red Sea; 46 pages with 63 plates and pages 47-58 of text; 23 pages; 24 pages; 4 pages, 2 plates with animals and plants from China; bound without: frontispiece particulier du voyage du sieur Acarette, ??? 23 of 24 pages of Viaggio del P. Grueber including the plate of the Chinese alphabet, with only the French translation of the account and map of Ethiopia. Part III: 1 leaf; [3] leaves; 28 pages; pages 31-68 with plate of the route (bound between pages 26 and 27 of following work); map of China; 216 pages; 12 pages; 10 plates not called for by Brunet, from the Voyage des ambassadeurs bound at the end; bound without the frontispiece to the part III, 2 leaves of text at the end of the first avis, 2 plates from the Voyage des ambassadeurs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By THEVENOT Melchis\u00e9dec, 1666-1672.","protected":false},"featured_media":29148,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[411],"product_cat":[4953,5856,633],"product_tag":[5818,4223,5667,5665],"product_campaign":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29147","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-rare-books","7":"product_cat-all-stock","8":"product_cat-sale40","9":"product_cat-travel-voyages","10":"product_tag-5818","11":"product_tag-americas-mexico-tasman-pelsaert-batavia-china-africa","12":"product_tag-december25","13":"product_tag-rare-travel-books","14":"subjects-travel-voyages-2","15":"locations-travel-voyages","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"sold-individually","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n