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LOT 1401
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Voyage par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance a Batavia, a Bantam et au Bengale,

-en 1768, 69, 70 et 71, par J.S. Stavorinus; chef d'escadre de la République Batave; avec des Observations sur la Navigation et le Commerce de ces Contrées, ainsi que sur le Caractère, les Moeurs et la Religion des Peuples qui les habitent. Traduit du Hollandois par H.J. Jansen. Orné de trois cartes. Paris, H.J. Jansen, 1798, VIII,434,(1) p., with folding engraved map of Batavia, and folding engraved maps of a large part of the Ganges and Kaap de Goede Hoop, in (later) simple paper binding.

Good and complete, uncut copy. P. 225-228 skipped as always. French translation of the Second Dutch edition (1797-1798) of the travels of Johan Splinter Stavorinus (1739-1788) , first published in Leiden in 1793 under the title " Reize of Zeeland at the Cape of Good Hope to Batavia, Bantam -1771 ... " . Until page 157, the journey is a personal description( departure from Zeeland. P. 159-271 is on trading in Java , p 273-382 . on the Bengals , the last part of the book is on Kaap de Goede Hoop.

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