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169368094Paris: Jean Boudot 1693. Later hardcover. Engraved title page 263422 pp. and 8 engraved plates. Text in French new binding low margins sometimes a little loss see pictures pages 283/284 misbound paper browned Although still very good very rare see pictures Jean Boudot hardcover
1692BS44GLTBN504Paris: Claude Barbin 1692. Hardback later mottled calf gilt title to spine label. 24.5cm x 19cm. Engraved portrait of Stanislaus Jablonowski by Picart one folding map 3 engraved plates engraved headpieces all by Vallet historiated initials. 1st edition 1692. Binding is slightly rubbed and worn with a few very small worm holes not going all the way through. Some dampstaining to front free end-paper and to inner lower margin of last few pages of the Table at rear but otherwise contents is generally clean. Scarce. bs44. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Claude Barbin Hardcover
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1692E0527titlepictorial platexviifolding map406xxiv pages with engraved initials and vignettes and three additional plates and index. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 1/2" bound in full leather with five raised bands and lettering in gilt and decorative vignettes. First edition.<br /><br />Philippe Avril was a Jesuit explorer of the Far East and professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris when he was dispatched to the Jesuit missions of China. He was summoned by the Jesuit missions and sent as a Jesuit to the missions in China. Following the instructions of Ferdinand Verbiest another Jesuit then at Peking suggested that he attempted an overland journey which he ended up traveling for six years through Kurdistan Armenia Astrakhan Persia and other countries of eastern Asia arriving at Moscow. He now traveled to Grodno in Poland where he renewed an acquaintance with Count de Syri who had formerly befriended him at Astrakham. The count at the suggestion of Avril applied ot the French government for the appointment of ambassador from the King of France to the Emperor of China. He succeed in obtaining the appointment and it was arranged that Avril should accompany him. They set out to Moscow together. An accident detained Avril and the count arrived at Moscow days before his companion. On the arrival of Avril he received the intelligence that the Russian authorities and compelled the count to proceed and was refused permission to over take him. Avril proceeded to Warsaw and through the assistance of Prince Jablonowksi to reach Constantinople by way of Moldavia. Here he was seized with spitting of blood and he found himself compelled to relinquish his mission and returned to France. He landed at Toulon in 1690 and published an account of his travels. Avril's journal and writings provide a significant amount of useful material for modern historians and demographers.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Corners bumped and rubbed lacking 3E4 blank leaf between the end of the main text and start of the Table de Metiers occasional toning ink inscription to title spine ends and raised spine rubbed some spotting to leather else a good to very good copy. Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse hardcover
1692LV1992Paris:: Chez Claude Barbin Jean Boudot George & Louis Josse avec privilege du Roy 1692. 1692. Sm. 4to. xx 406 xxiv pp. 6 chapter vignettes engraved by Vallet pp. aii 1 71 165 231 323 large engraved portrait of General Stanislas Jablonowski by Picart large folding map of Siberia 3 engraved plates: engr. pl. of transport sled of Moscow facing p.150 engr. pl. of a Calmouc Tartar facing p. 195 "Esquiss des Cosaques" facing p. 356. Nineteenth century quarter maroon morocco maroon paper over boards; rubbed. Rubber-stamp of Abbe E. Emile Longin Beaujeu fl.1904; receipt of sale of this copy to Armand Pushman 1932 NYC. First edition. This work was first translated into English in 1693. "At this time a major preoccupation of the Catholic Church and its China mission was to discover a safe land route from Europe to Peking through central Asia. This was due to the large numbers of out-going clergy who perished tragically every year at sea." Ames & Love p. 202. "The last decade of the century saw the publication of the accounts of several overland travelers to China and their destinations of China's inner-Asian neighbors. The story of the Jesuit Philippe Avril's attempt to establish a route across Russia for the safe passage of missionaries to China appeared in 1692 and includes descriptions of both the routes from Moscow to China and the peoples on China's frontiers. Avril himself however did not travel beyond Moscow and his descriptions therefore are not the result of his own observations." Lach & Kley pp. 1685-1686. The same for Nicolaas Witsen. Avril Philippe a Jesuit born in France explored extensively throughout Asia and the Far East. He was a professor of mathematics and philosophy in Paris before he began his overland journey. He traveled for six years through Kurdistan Armenia Astrakhan Persia and other parts of the southeast. At one point he came to Moscow and was refused entry to Tatary. He was sent by the government to Poland via Istanbul and back to France. Apparently affected by exhaustion and disease he still undertook another voyage his last for the ship was lost at sea circa 1698. – Love Ronald S. "A Passage to China: A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." French Colonial History 3: p. 94 2003. Ames & Love offer: "Though obliged to leave Moscow Avril did not return to France with Louis Barnabe . . . Remaining instead at Warsaw the two Jesuits had entered in early March 1688 Avril attempted twice more to achieve his objective or reaching China by land – if not through Siberia then via Persia and Central Asia. Aided in part by the Polish monarch John Sobieski r.1674-1696 and his ambassador to Russia the French priest once again traveled to Moscow in late spring. Just two days after his arrival in the Muscovite capital however Avril was ordered summarily out of the country. Once again he appealed the command in vain. 'Russia intended to keep her trade with China a secret.' Nor did he have better luck later the same year 1688 when he and a fellow Jesuit Pere de Beauvillier tried going south to Constantinople instead and thence through Persia to Bokhara Samarkland and the Chinese frontier. Crossing secretly into Ottoman territory the two men were arrested as spies. After several weeks they secured their release and resumed their trek. But Avril whose health had been waning as a result of relentless exertions suddenly developed a hemorrhage. Ordered to abandon the search and return home by his superiors he reached France in autumn 1689." Ames & Love p. 219. For Abbe Emile Longin provenance: see Bulletin de la Societe des sciences et arts du Beaujolais 1904 p.92. There is a Maggs Bros. London booksellers receipt of sale of this copy to Armand Pushman 10 Nov. 1932. Armand was one of two sons of Hovsep Pushman 1877-1966 an American artist of Armenian descent. He had studied art at the Imperial School of Fine Arts Istanbul. For a time Pushman lived at the famous Mission Inn Riverside California. He was also involved in the founding of the Laguna Beach Art Association. Armand Pushman d.1999 lived to 98 years and had been throughout his career a partner with his brother in their carpet business Pushman & Company. See: NYT Obituary January 11 1999. See: Henri Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica Dictionnaire Bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs a l'Empire chinois t. III 2088; De Backer Augustin & Carlos S.J. Sommervogel Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus. Bibliographie tome I p.706; Donald F. Lach Edwin J. Van Kley Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III: A Century of Advance book 4: East Asia. University of Chicago Press 1998; Glenn Joseph Ames Ronald S. Love Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia 1600-1700. Praeger 2003 – pp. 202 219; Howgego A142; Salmaslian Armenag Bibliographie de l'Armenie 1946 p. 238; Walravens Hartmut China illustrata. Das europaische Chinaverstandnis im Spiegel des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit einem Beitrag von David E. Mungello. Ausstellung im Zeughaus der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel vom 21. Marz bis 23. August 1987. Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog-August-Bibliothek Nr. 55 Wolfenbuttel: Herzog August Bibliothek 1987 55. 1691. Chez, Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse, avec privilege du Roy, 1692. hardcover
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