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Important for the history of Sulawesi (Celebes)

GERVAISE, Nicolas.
Description historique du Royaume de Macaçar. Divisée en trois livres. Augmentée de diverses pièces curieuses.

With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.



Regensburg, Erasme Kinkius, 1700. 3 parts in 1 vol. Small 8vo. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and several woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. (10), 280 pp.

Rare second edition of this work on the kingdom of Macassar, now known as the island Sulawesi (Celebes) in the Indonesian archipelago, by the French missionary Nicolas Gervaise (1662-1729). The work is one of the first books on Sulawesi, and contains interesting documents of the kingdom of Macassar during the second half of the seventeenth century. When he was only twenty years old, Gervaise went as a missionary to the kingdom of Siam (now Thailand) and stayed there for four years, investigating the religion, customs, literature and history of its inhabitants. After his return to France, he published his findings in his Histoire naturelle et politique du royaume de Siam, and in the present work, both appearing in 1688. In 1724 he went to Rome, where he was consecrated bishop of Horren, but only a few years later he went, together with some other clergymen, to Central America, to do missionary work again. He settled down near the Orinoco river and was assasinated by inhabitants of Spanish Guinea in 1729.
Good copy.- (Sl. browned).
Cioranescu 32932; Chadenat 838.

Related Subjects: Cartography  Indonesia  Voyages 

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