Description du premier voyage faict aux Indes Orientales par les François en l’An 1603. [including separate title pages for the Description et Remarque de quelques animaux, episceries, drogues… and the Traicte du Scurbut].
Extremely rare first edition of the first French account of the East Indies to appear in print (cf. Lach & van Kley, III: 373), here in an impeccable copy bound in contemporary vellum. The work is that of the French adventurer François Martin de Vitré (c. 1575-c. 1631), who, upon..... More