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PIAN DEL CARPINE, GIOVANNI DEL. Seer aanmerkelyke Reys-Beschryvingen van Johan du Plan Carpin . . . van den Paus Innocentius de IV. afgesonden na Tartaryen. 4 double-page engraved plates; folding engraved map. [4], 87, [5] pages. Mostly printed in black letter. 8vo, disbound; scattered minor foxing. Leiden: Pieter vander Aa, 1706
First edition in Dutch of the first European work on the Mongol Empire, describing the 1245-47 papal mission there led by the author. "It contains an account of Tartar manners and history . . . unsurpassed in mediaeval times" (Sarton). This translation appeared in the first of the 29 volumes of vander Aa's monumental collection of voyages and travels. Cordier (Sinica) 1957; Penrose, page 14; Sarton II, 640-42.
