SCHOUTEN, Wouter - Lot 146

SCHOUTEN, Wouter Voyage aux Indes orientales, commencé en l'an 1658. & finished in the year 1665. Translated from Dutch. Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1707. 2 volumes in-12 (157 x 94 mm) with an engraved frontispiece, 1 f.n.ch. of title, 508 pp. for volume I; engraved frontispiece, 1 f.n.ch. of title, 515 pp., 15 copper-engraved figures printed on 10 leaves (of which 5 full page). Ivory vellum, triple gilt fillet, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Chadenat, 697; Landwehr, VOC, 287; Howgego, S66. First edition of the French translation of the famous account of travels in Asia (Malabar, Bengal, Formosa, Batavia, Sumatra, Moluccas, etc.) by Wouter or Gautier Schouten (1638-1704). The iconography includes an allegorical frontispiece repeated in each volume, and 15 figures of exotic fauna and flora (walrus, rhinoceros, mongoose, caiman, coral, lychee, etc.). A nice copy, well preserved in its first binding. Provenance: General R. Vaudable (ex-libris).