Voyages très-curieux & très renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse
By: par le Sr. Adam Olearius ... Dans lesquels on trouve une description curieuse & la situation exacte des pays & etats, par où il a passé, tels que sont la Livonie, la Moscovie, la Tartarie, la Medie, & la Perse ... Traduits de l'original & augmentez par le Sr. De Wicquefort ... Divisez en deux parties.
Contributors: Wicquefort, Abraham de, 1606-1682.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Nouvelle edition revûe & corrigée exactement, augmentée considerablement ... A quoi on a joint des cartes geographiques ...
Publisher: Chez Michel Charles Le Céne ...
Published: 1727
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 1108
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.; Russia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Asia, Central -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Asiatic Russia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; East Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: In double columns.
The original Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Reise ... appeared in 1647, including J.A. von Mandelslo's short account of his voyage in India and Africa (first published in 1645). The voyages of Mandelslo, ed. from his papers, were published by Olearius in 1658. The first ed. of Wicquefort's translation appeared in Paris, 1656; the 2nd, "augmentée ... d'une 2de partie contenant le voyage de Jean Albert de Mandeslo, Paris 1659, and Leyde, P. van der Aa, 1719, 4 vols. in 2, fol.  The present edition is that of Van der Aa; with a new t.p.  Dutch versions appeared (Amsterdam 1651) and later an English translation (London, 1662).
LC copy: Presentation copy of William T. Rice to the Smithsonian Institution.