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The Voyage of Francois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil. Translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619 [Three Volumes].
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1887-1890. lviii, 452 pp.; xlvii, 287 pp.; 4, xii, [289-572] pp. Illus. with 2 b/w folding maps and 21 engravings, drawings and reproductions. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in blind, gilt vignette of ship on front boards, spines ruled in blind, gilt titles, yellow endpapers. First edition. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 76, 77 and 80. Harry Charles Purvis Bell, ass't. Spines sunned and a few small tears to heads of two volumes, small institutional bookplate to front pastedowns, owner's nautical bookplate opposite, light foxing to Vol. I title page; otherwise very good unopened (uncut) copies. Borba de Moraes II, 169. Rodrigues 2008. National Maritime Museum 411. Oaten 265. Cox I: 290. Item #33687
Originally published with title: Discours du voyage des Francois aux Indes orientales ... par Fran. Pyrard. Paris, 1611. Attributed also to Pierre de Bergeron and Jerome Bignon. Vol. I covers from 1601 to Pyrard's arrival at Goa in 1608. Vol. II (part I) covers from 1608 to Pyrard's departure from Goa in 1610 and has continuous main pagination with First Series 80. Vol. II (part II) covers 1610-1611, the return to France. With a treatise on animals, trees, and fruits, and advice upon the voyage to the East Indies. The supplementary material includes the 1889 annual report. "Francois Pyrard de Laval... wrote works which stand in the very first rank of those which enabled their contemporaries to gain some idea of the country which they had visited," (Oaten p. 116). "Pyrard's travels covered the years between 1601 and 1611, and have crowded into them a welter of shipwrecks, imprisonments, and other adventures such as seldom falls to a man without leaving him permanently scarred. ...His first-hand experiences and acquaintance with various parts of the mainland of India and the islands of the Archipelago make his record a valuable repository of geographical and historical knowledge of the East. Especially has it been commended for his account of the Maldive Islands," (Cox, p.290).
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