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Voyages très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse
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Voyages très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par le sr. Adam Olearius, ... Dans lesquels on trouve une description curieuse & la situation exacte des pays & etats, par où il a passé, tels que sont la Livonie, la Moscovie, la Tartarie, la Medie, & la Perse ... Traduits de l'original & augmentez par le sr. de Wicquefort ... Divisez en deux parties.
Edition
Nouvelle edition revûe & corrigée exactement, augmentée considerablement ... A quoi on a joint des cartes geographiques ...
Published
Leide, P. Vander Aa, 1719.
Physical Description
2 v. in 1 (20 p. l., 1108 numb. col., 10 l.) illus., 30 double pl., 2 port., 10 double maps.
Local Notes
MUDD Ee +633hc: Plate facing columns 1039-40 wanting.
Notes
In double columns.
The original "Offt begehrte beschreibung der newen orientalischen reise ..." appeared in 1647, including J. A. von Mandelslo's short account of his voyage in India and Africa (first pub. in 1645) The voyages of Mandelslo, edited from his papers, were published by Olearius in 1658. The first edition of Wicquefort's translation appeared in Paris, 1656; the second, "augmentée de plus d'un tiers, particulièrement d'une 2de partie contenant le voyage de Jean Albert de Mandeslo," Paris, 1659, and Leyde, P. van der Aa, 1719, 4 v. in 2, fol. The present edition is that of Van der Aa; with new t.-p. Dutch versions appeared 1651 (Amsterdam) and later; an English translation, London, 1662.
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French
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June 01, 2002
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