Du Jarric, Pierre

FIRST EDITION, 3 parts in 3 volumes, 4to (215 x 165mm.), parts 1 and 3 title within typographical border (the latter printed in black and red), part 2 with an engraved allegorical title (see Literature), full-page woodcut illustration on part one Sss3v, parts 1 and 3 bound in contemporary non-uniform sheep, part 2 bound in contemporary calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps and catches, a few headlines shaved

Borba de Moraes 1:358, 425-426, noting the existence of at least one copy with a frontispiece in vol. 1.; Cordier Sinica 771; Cordier Japonica 260-61; Lust 807; Sabin 35790

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A rare collection of Jesuit voyages. Sabin notes that “only three copies of this interesting, elaborate, and valuable work appear to have occurred for sale, one of which was in the curious collection of the late Robert Lang Esq., who had written on it ‘The third volume of this work is very scarce, and although the two first volumes are found amongst collections of scarce voyages, I never saw or heard of but one other copy of the third volume’”.