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Rhodes, Alexandre de
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Divers voiages… en la Chine, & autres roiaumes de l'orient, avec son retour en Europe par la Perse & l’Armenie… Seconde edition. Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666
- paper
4to (233 x 170mm.), title with engraved printer’s device, privilege leaf at end, later morocco-backed boards in antique style, spine gilt in 5 compartments, some marginal worming, repaired
Literature
Cordier, Sinica 2081; Western Travellers in China 18
Catalogue Note
Alexandre de Rhodes was a Jesuit missionary who travelled widely in Indochina, and reported that he had converted over 6,000 Vietnamese.