1685 Relation d'un Voyage des Indes Orientales

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

In the original French.

Volume I only of a very scarce two volume first edition. The second volume - not present here - also included the author's work on tropical disease, 'Traite des Maladies Particulieres'.

With the collation: [7], A-M12.

Lacking the title page, and front and rear free endpapers. Retaining the original half title.

In this fascinating work, the author describes his travels in the East Indies, India, and Indonesia in the late seventeenth century. He worked as a ship's surgeon, and landed in Daman, Portuguese India, in 1673, where he had serious problems with the Portuguese Inquisition. 

The work of French physician and writer Charles Dellon, best known for his 1687 work ' Relation de l'Inquisition de Goa'.