MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- (EXQUEMELIN, A.O.). Historie der boecaniers, of vrybuyters van America. Amst., N. ten Hoorn, 1700. 3 parts. (8), 219; 136, (8) pp. (last leaf blank). W. engr. front. by C. Huijberts, 1 fold. map of South-America and 7 engr. plates (1 fold.), some signed J. Lamsvelt in the plate. - Bound with: G. TACHARD. Reis van Siam. Waar in veele tot noch toe onbekende Zaaken, so omtrent de gelegentheid van dit Land, als omtrent de Religie, Zeden, en andere dingen worden verhaald. Waar by komt het Verhaal van 't Ambassaadtschap des Ridders van Chaumont Aan 't selve Hof. Utr., J. Ribbius, 1687. 2 parts. (4), 196, (8); 77, (3) pp. - Tog. 5 parts in 1 vol. 4°. Cont. vellum. (A bit browned throughout, a bit loose, outer blank margin a bit stained in places/traces of use in places, some remarks and a kind of accolades (highlighting paragraphs) in pencil in outer margins in places, but altog. a sound copy).
Ad 1: Scarce second edition of a book which became immensely popular and that was almost immediately translated in various languages. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. - Sabin 23469; Muller, 580. Ad 2: Tachard was sent in 1685 with five other Jesuits under Superior Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin. The objective of the Jesuits was to complete a scientific expedition to the Indies and China. Enticed by the Greek Constantine Phaulkon, he returned to France to suggest an alliance with the king of Siam Narai to Louis XIV. - Tiele 1076: De Backer/S.VII, 1803; Cordier, Bibl. Indosinica p. 947.€ 1500
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