[Fermanel de Favery, Luc]. Relation des missions des evesques françois aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonkin, &c.

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"Very rare" first edition of this mission to the Far East.
Very fresh and wide-margined copy since preserved in its contemporary binding, of this interesting travel account, very important for the knowledge of the Far East in the 17th century.

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Paris, Pierre Le Petit, Edme Couterot, Charles Angot, 1674.

8vo [181 x 120 mm] of (8) ll., 367 pp., (1) p., (1) bl. l. Full contemporary brown granite calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.

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Rare first edition of this account of the catholic missions to Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
Cordier, Sinica, 826; Streit V, 1797.

“Very rare relation” (Chadenat, n°3841).

In 1658 Pope Alexander VII sent three bishops to the Far East to govern the Churches of these countries.

« The French bishops in the East meanwhile kept the public informed about their activities in China, Indochina, and Siam through a series of published relations. From these works it became clear that the French mission was becoming increasingly dominant in East and Southeast Asia” (Lach-Van Kley, 3, 416).

Very fresh and wide-margined copy since preserved in its contemporary binding, of this interesting travel account, very important for the knowledge of the Far East in the 17th century.

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