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Voyages de Mr. de Thevenot Tant en Europe quenAsie & en Afrique, divisez en trois Parties, quicomprenent cinq volumes.

Author: Thevenot, Jean deYear: 1689Edition: 2nd (First collected)Publisher: Paris, Charles AngotCategory: Website reference service

Vol. I: Premiere Partie qui comprend le Voiage de Levant.Vol. II: Livre second de la premiere Partie du Voyage de

Mr. de Thevenot au Levant, Ou lEgypte est exactementdcrite avec ses principales Villes & les Curiosits qui ysont.Vol. III: Suite du Voyage de Mr. de Thevenot au Levant;dans laquelle aprs plusieurs Remarques trs-singulieressur des particularitez de lEgypte, de la Syrie, de laMesopotamie, de lEuphrate & du Tigre.Vol. IV: Livre troisieme de la Suite du Voyage de Mr. de

Thevenot au Levant; Qui contient une Description curieuse

du Pas de Schiras & autres Lieux qui sont sous ladomination de Roi de Perse, avec plusieurs autres chosesremarquables.Vol. V: Les voyages de Mr. de Thevenot aux IndesOrientales, Contenans une Description exacte delIndostan, des nouveaux Mogols, & des autres Peuples &Pas des Indes Orientales, avec leurs Moeurs & Maximes,Religions, Ftes, Temples, Pagodes, Cimitires,Commerce, & autres choses remarquables.

Together 5 vols., second edition and first collectededition, 1 additional engraved title (as frontispiece) plus49 engraved plates of which 11 folding.Full contemporary calf, spines gilt tooled, with a giltmorocco label, 12mo, Paris, chez Charles Angot, 1689.

Vol. 1: pp. [24],1-378 -- frontis and 9 plates of which 2folding.

Vol. 2: pp. [2], 381-939, [38] -- 10 plates of which 3folding.

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Vol. 3: pp. [22], [5], [13], [4], 1-414 -- 14 plates of which 5folding.Vol. 4: pp. [2], 415-709, [28] -- 4 plates of which 1 folding.Vol. 5: pp. [12], 1-344, [20] -- 12 plates.

Please note that despite vol. 1 ends at page 378 and vol.2 starts at page 381, there are no pages missing; allvolumes are complete. Woodcut ornaments and initialsthroughout.

There are indexes in vols. 2, 4 and 5.

Jean de Thevenot (1633-1667); French traveller in theEast, who was born in Paris. He first visited England,Holland, Germany and Italy, and at Rome he metD'Herbelot, who invited him to be his companion in aprojected voyage to the Levant. D'Herbelot was detained,but Thevenot sailed from Rome to Malta, then tookpassage for Constantinople, proceeded from there toSmyrna, the Greek islands and from there to Alexandria.He visited the chief places of pilgrimage in Palestine. In

January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship,taking Goletta and Tunis on the way. He then spent four

years at home and in November 1663 again sailed for theEast, calling at Alexandria and landing at Sidon, whencehe proceeded by land to Damascus, Aleppo, and thenthrough Mesopotamia to Mosul, Bagdad and Mendeli. Herehe entered Persia, proceeding to Isfahan, where he spentfive months and then joining company with the merchant

Tavernier, proceeded by Shiraz and Lar to Bander-Abbasi,visited the ruins of Persepolis, made his way to Basra andsailed for India on the 6th of November 1665. He was in

India for thirteen months, and crossed the country,returning overland to Surat, from which he sailed toBander-Abbasi and went up to Shiraz. He passed thesummer of 1667 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidentalpistol-shot; and in October started for Tabriz, but died onthe way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667.

Thevenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in Turkish,Arabic and Persian, and a curious and diligent observer.He was also well skilled in the natural sciences, especially

in botany, for which he made large collections in India.The account of his first journey was published at Paris in

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1665; it forms the first part of his collected Voyages. Thepreface shows that Thevenot himself arranged it forpublication before leaving on his second voyage. Thesecond and third parts were posthumously published from

his journals in 1674 and 1684 (all 4to).This is the first collected edition. A second, more common,yet scarce collected edition was published in Amsterdamin 1727. Gay 133.

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