BERNIER (François). Lot n° 13

Travel of François Bernier, Containing the Description of the States of Great Mogol, Hindustan, the Kingdom of Kashmir Amsterdam, Marret, 1699. Two volumes in-12 of 330 pp. (misnumbered 320), 358 pp., 2 frontispices included in the pagination and 11 plates, contemporary brown speckled calf binding, spines decorated, speckled edges. First edition under this title. It gathers the four parts published separately in 1670 and 1671. Frontispieces, three maps and eight plates, six of them folding. Tearing without missing p. 47; important handwritten commentary by a reader of the time on the guards, one unfolded plate (first volume).