Voyages de Mr.

de Thevenot Tant en Europe quen Asie & en Afrique, divisez en trois Parties, qui comprenent cinq volumes. Author: Thevenot, Jean de Year: 1689 Edition: 2nd (First collected) Publisher: Paris, Charles Angot Category: Website reference service

Vol. I: Premiere Partie qui comprend le Voiage de Levant. Vol. II: Livre second de la premiere Partie du Voyage de Mr. de Thevenot au Levant, Ou lEgypte est exactement dcrite avec ses principales Villes & les Curiosits qui y sont. Vol. III: Suite du Voyage de Mr. de Thevenot au Levant; dans laquelle aprs plusieurs Remarques trs-singulieres sur des particularitez de lEgypte, de la Syrie, de la Mesopotamie, de lEuphrate & du Tigre. Vol. IV: Livre troisieme de la Suite du Voyage de Mr. de Thevenot au Levant; Qui contient une Description curieuse du Pas de Schiras & autres Lieux qui sont sous la domination de Roi de Perse, avec plusieurs autres choses remarquables. Vol. V: Les voyages de Mr. de Thevenot aux Indes Orientales, Contenans une Description exacte de lIndostan, des nouveaux Mogols, & des autres Peuples & Pas des Indes Orientales, avec leurs Moeurs & Maximes, Religions, Ftes, Temples, Pagodes, Cimitires, Commerce, & autres choses remarquables. Together 5 vols., second edition and first collected edition, 1 additional engraved title (as frontispiece) plus 49 engraved plates of which 11 folding. Full contemporary calf, spines gilt tooled, with a gilt morocco label, 12mo, Paris, chez Charles Angot, 1689. Vol. 1: pp. [24],1-378 -- frontis and 9 plates of which 2 folding. Vol. 2: pp. [2], 381-939, [38] -- 10 plates of which 3 folding.
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Vol. 3: pp. [22], [5], [13], [4], 1-414 -- 14 plates of which 5 folding. Vol. 4: pp. [2], 415-709, [28] -- 4 plates of which 1 folding. Vol. 5: pp. [12], 1-344, [20] -- 12 plates. Please note that despite vol. 1 ends at page 378 and vol. 2 starts at page 381, there are no pages missing; all volumes are complete. Woodcut ornaments and initials throughout. There are indexes in vols. 2, 4 and 5. Jean de Thevenot (1633-1667); French traveller in the East, who was born in Paris. He first visited England, Holland, Germany and Italy, and at Rome he met D'Herbelot, who invited him to be his companion in a projected voyage to the Levant. D'Herbelot was detained, but Thevenot sailed from Rome to Malta, then took passage for Constantinople, proceeded from there to Smyrna, the Greek islands and from there to Alexandria. He visited the chief places of pilgrimage in Palestine. In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, taking Goletta and Tunis on the way. He then spent four years at home and in November 1663 again sailed for the East, calling at Alexandria and landing at Sidon, whence he proceeded by land to Damascus, Aleppo, and then through Mesopotamia to Mosul, Bagdad and Mendeli. Here he entered Persia, proceeding to Isfahan, where he spent five months and then joining company with the merchant Tavernier, proceeded by Shiraz and Lar to Bander-Abbasi, visited the ruins of Persepolis, made his way to Basra and sailed for India on the 6th of November 1665. He was in India for thirteen months, and crossed the country, returning overland to Surat, from which he sailed to Bander-Abbasi and went up to Shiraz. He passed the summer of 1667 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidental pistol-shot; and in October started for Tabriz, but died on the way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667. Thevenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in Turkish, Arabic and Persian, and a curious and diligent observer. He was also well skilled in the natural sciences, especially in botany, for which he made large collections in India. The account of his first journey was published at Paris in
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1665; it forms the first part of his collected Voyages. The preface shows that Thevenot himself arranged it for publication before leaving on his second voyage. The second and third parts were posthumously published from his journals in 1674 and 1684 (all 4to). This is the first collected edition. A second, more common, yet scarce collected edition was published in Amsterdam in 1727. Gay 133.