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PYRARD, FRANCOIS. Voyage . . . contenant sa Navigation aux Indes Orientales, Maldives, Moluques, & au Brésil. 1679. Lacks the map.

PYRARD, FRANCOIS. Voyage . . . contenant sa Navigation aux Indes Orientales, Maldives, Moluques, & au Brésil . . . Nouvelle Edition, reveue, corrigée & augmentee. Edited by Pierre Du Val. [10], 327 [i. e., 323], [1]; 218; 144, [23] pages; lacks the map./span 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 232x185 mm, modern 1/2 leather; contents toned with light to moderate foxing, preliminaries and some gatherings or sheets severely browned, partly repaired worming in blank upper and lower outer corners in middle and toward end of volume, small piece torn from blank lower margin of X4, small stains in upper margin of map. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1679

  • Notes: Fourth edition of Pyrard's 1611 account of his experiences during a decade-long stay in South Asia. His description of Bahia, where he was shipwrecked on his return to Europe, is one of the earliest published writings on life in a Brazilian city. Alden 679/105; Borba de Moraes 694; Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, pages 220-21.

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