Guillaume van Poolsum

French-language Dutch edition of the Six Voyages, published in Utrecht in 1712 by Guillaume Vande Water and Guillaume & Jacob Poolsum, one of only three French editions of the work printed outside France between the original Paris edition of 1676 and 1724, the others being Amsterdam 1678 and The Hague 1718. Illustrated with a portrait of Tavernier, an allegorical frontispiece signed J. Goeree, and 34 plates, 27 of them folding, depicting among other subjects coins, objects, plans, customs, and precious stones encountered during his travels.

 

Contemporary full brown calf, preserved in a modern slipcase covered with old...

First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by J. Goeree engraved on copper, as well as a copper-engraved armorial vignette at the opening of the text (cf. Barbier, III, 560. Quérard, III, 212. Not held at the BnF. Not recorded in Fossati Bellani.)

Contemporary half tawny calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and blind-stamped fleurons now almost entirely faded, red morocco title label, a restoration to the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, early 19th-century binding,

A small black ink stain to a blank endpaper.

The work discusses, among other subjects, the Republic’s losses in Greece, the battles of Lepanto and the Dardanelles...

Reprint of the rare French first edition published in 1704, illustrated with 9 figures including 5 folding plates of Mount Thabor, Baalbek, the cisterns of Solomon... A Parisian edition was also published in 1705. The English first edition dates from 1703 in Oxford.
Bound in full blonde sheep, root-marbled, later binding (c. 1790). Smooth spine decorated with 5 tools and repeated roulette. Headcap torn off. Two corners bumped.
Chaplain to the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Maundrell accomplished a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1696 accompanied by 14 coreligionists. The narrative follows the form of a daily journal. The travelers passed through Lebanon and Syria, and Maundrell...