Travels and Voyages

Los 166
28.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1360882
Los 166 | Travels and Voyages
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
MOCQUET, John (b.1575). Travels and voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies; Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-Land. Translated from the French by Nathaniel Pullen. London: printed for William Newton and Joseph Shelton, 1696.

First edition in English of Mocquet's account of his early-17th-century voyages. It is of special interest for its description of Brazil and the West and East Indies. The woodcut illustrations depict inhabitants of the Caribbean and Amazon region. Wing M-2310.

Octavo (165 x 99mm). 8 pages of woodcuts comprising 16 vignettes (a couple with borders just shaved). (Leaves A2 and H4 with repairs to margin, the latter just grazing a few letters; U2 and Z2 with repairs in text and several letters in facsimile; a few leaves in quire s shaved close with loss to catchwords; spotting). Half dark green morocco by the Club Bindery, all edges gilt (a little rubbed, spine faded). Provenance: Winthrop Sargent (inscription dated 10 May 1865) – William Loring Andrews (bookplate) – bookplate depicting open book with initials MAL – Pierre S. duPont III (his sale, Christie's New York, 8 October 1991, lot 177).
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