HUET (Pierre Daniel) - Lot 131

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HUET (Pierre Daniel) - Lot 131
HUET (Pierre Daniel) Tracté de la situation du Paradis Terrestre à Messieurs de l'Académie Françoise. Paris, Anisson, 1691. In-12 : 11f. 240pp. 10f. (table); engraved title frontispiece and one folding plate (map of the situation of the earthly paradise). Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-piece, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. A fine copy. First edition of this study dedicated to his fellow members of the French Academy. It is not far from the Persian Gulf, in Chavila, exactly on the territory occupied by the current Kuwait according to the maps and the description of this work that the terrestrial paradise would be found. There are also passages on pearl fishing practiced in the Persian Gulf and particularly in Bahrain. Provenance: Printed bookplate A. Le Mareschal, Beauvais.
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