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Barri, Cristophoro
Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- Cochin-China: Containing many admirable Rarities and Singularities of that Countrey. Extracted out of an Italian Relation ... London: by Robert Raworth for Richard Clutterbuck, 1633
- paper, ink, leather
4to (200 x 130 mm). First and final blanks lacking, title and final page strengthened in gutters. Modern gilt brown morocco.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillips (bookplate; sale, Sotheby's London, 26 November 1973, lot 2314)
Literature
STC 1504
Catalogue Note
first edition of the first account in English of Vietnam. Only the present copy of this edition appears in ABPC, sold to John Fleming in 1988.