Abraham de Wicquefort, 1606-1682, Dutch diplomat, was imprisoned in the Bastille by Cardinal Mazarin in 1659, and was freed by the Elector of Brandenburg,
hence his statement on the title of this book. For another work by him, see no. 1428.
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Voiages de Chardin en Perse et aux Indes orientales.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 267, as above.
CHARDIN,
Sir John.
Journal du Voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse & aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide. Premiere Partie, qui contient Le Voyage de Paris à Ispahan. A
Londres: chez
Moses Pitt,
m dc lxxxvi
. [1686.]
First Edition. Folio. The copy examined was perfect with 170 leaves in twos, though the signatures jumped from Qq
1 to Aaa
1 and the pagination from 150 to 181; engraved portrait frontispiece by D. Loggan, engraved title, engraved head and tail pieces and historiated and pictorial initials, folded engraved map and other folded
plates.
This edition not in Lowndes.
STC C2041.
This edition not in Quérard.
Brunet I, 636.
Haag IV, 44.
This edition not in Wilson.
Boucher de la Richarderie IV, 450.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
8.0.
Sir John Chardin, 1643-1712, a Frenchman by birth, settled in England in 1681 on account of the persecution of the Protestants in France,
and was knighted by Charles II. He travelled extensively in the East, and planned an account of his experiences to be published
in four volumes. The first part was published in 1686 as above (and concurrently in English), and reissued in 1711 with the
first edition of the second and third volumes. Volume IV was never printed.
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8
Lecompte Memoires sur la Chine.
2. v. in 1.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 39, as above, but reading
Le Compte.
LE COMTE,
Louis Daniel.
Noveaux Memoires sur l’Etat present de la Chine. Par le P. Louis Le Comte de la Compagnie de Jesus, Mathématicien du Roy.
Troisieme Edition revüe et corrigée sur la dernière de Paris.
A
Amsterdam: chez
Henri Desbordes et
Antoine Schelte,
m. dc. xcviii
. [1698.]
2 vol. in 1. 12mo. 171 and 178 leaves, plates; no copy of this edition was seen for collation.
This edition not in Quérard.
Backer II, 1356, no. 1.
Louis Daniel Le Comte, 1655-1728, French Jesuit, was sent to China as a mathematician in 1685. He returned to Europe to inform the Pope as to the
state of the missions, and died in Bordeaux. The first edition of this work was published in Paris in 1696.
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Description de la Chine par Grosier.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 242, as above.
GROSIER,
abbé Jean Baptiste Gabriel Alexandre.
Description générale de la Chine, ou Tableau de l’État Actuel de cet Empire; Contenant, 1
o. la Description topographique des quinze Provinces qui le composent, celle de la Tartarie, des Isles, & autres pays tributaires
qui en dépendent; le nombre & la situation de ses Villes, l’état de sa Population, les productiones variées de son Sol, &
les principaux détails de son Histoire Naturelle; 2
o. un précis des connoissances le plus récemment parvenues en Europe sur le Gouvernement, la Religion,
