OLEARIUS, Adam (1599 or 1600-1671). Relation du voyage ... en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse, augmente en cette nouvelle edition ... contenant le voyage de Iean Albert de Mandelslo aux Indes Orientales. Traduit de l'Allemand par A. de Wicquefort ... seconde dition. Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1679. 2 volumes, 4 (240 x 180mm). 6 folding engraved maps. (Lacking 4 ?blank in vol. I, and front ?blank in vol. II, all but one of the maps with tears, one of these with loss, four pairs of leaves adhering together, most partially freed with subsequent damage to text.) Modern half sheep. Sold not subject to return. This is the most important work of the German traveller and orientalist, Adam Olearius or Oelschlaeger, first published as Beschreibung der moscowitischen und persianischen Reyse , Schleswig, 1647, in folio. The first French edition, translated by Abraham de Wicquefort, was published in Paris, 1656. (2)
OLEARIUS, Adam (1599 or 1600-1671). Relation du voyage ... en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse, augmente en cette nouvelle edition ... contenant le voyage de Iean Albert de Mandelslo aux Indes Orientales. Traduit de l'Allemand par A. de Wicquefort ... seconde dition. Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1679. 2 volumes, 4 (240 x 180mm). 6 folding engraved maps. (Lacking 4 ?blank in vol. I, and front ?blank in vol. II, all but one of the maps with tears, one of these with loss, four pairs of leaves adhering together, most partially freed with subsequent damage to text.) Modern half sheep. Sold not subject to return. This is the most important work of the German traveller and orientalist, Adam Olearius or Oelschlaeger, first published as Beschreibung der moscowitischen und persianischen Reyse , Schleswig, 1647, in folio. The first French edition, translated by Abraham de Wicquefort, was published in Paris, 1656. (2)
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