Mocquet, Jean

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Travels and Voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies; Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-Land... Translated from the French by Nathaniel Pullen. London: for William Newton; Joseph Shelton; and William Chandler, 1696
Paper, Ink, Leather

8vo (6 1/2 x 4 in.; 165 x 105 mm). Eight full-page woodcuts each depicting two scenes (slightly cropped at outer margin); browned, S3 and S6 cropped, affecting catchwords. Later tree calf gilt.

Provenance

Wolfgang A. Herz (Christie's New York, 9 December 2009, lot 28)

Literature

Wing M2310; Alden & Landis 696/161; Borba de Moraes II 576; Sabin 49794

Catalogue Note

First English edition. Mocquet's description of his voyages to Brazil and of the West and East Indies. The woodcuts depict Indians from the Caribbean and the Amazon region.