[Vietnam] No 1. Le Grand Chancelier de Royaume de Tunquin. 2.3.4 Mandarins ou Officiers de guerre...
[n.d., c.1679.] Rare engraving, a fine impression. 190 x 355mm (7½ x 14") very large margins. Original binding folds. Officials of the Vietnamese court, from the memoirs of traveller and gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89). After writing an account of his six expeditions, in which he travelled as far as Burma, he published a supplementary 'Recueil de Plusieurs Relations' which contained an account of Japan and Tonking (Hanoi)
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