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Siam - Thailand - Lot 540
Siam - Thailand [FERMANEL de FAVERY (Luc)] Relation des Missions des évesques françois aux royaumes de Siam, de la Cochinchine, de Camboye, & du Tonkin, &c. Divisé en quatre parties. Paris, Le Petit ; Couterot ; Angot, 1674. In-8. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, missing title-piece, missing leather on headpieces, gilt roulette on edges, red edges. Rare and unusual chronicle of the various voyages of the Jesuit foreign missions to Cochinchina (Vietnam) and Tonkin. Pallu, a French bishop, was one of the first missionaries to this region and attempted to establish a clergy in Cochin. The book contains descriptions of the local populations, the Cape Verde Islands, the Bay of Mozambique, Surat and the state of Christianity in Siam (Thailand). There is also a report on Cochinchina and a description of Cambodia.
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