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PAULINUS à SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO [i. e., JOHANN PHILIPP WERDIN or WESDIN]. Viaggio alle Indie Orientali. 12 engraved plates; engraved portrait of the author on page 1. Some use of Arabic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, and Malayalam types. xx, 404 pages. 4to, 252x184 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled, ink shelf number on spine; scattered foxing lightly affecting a few plates, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf, blank lower outer corner of N1 restored. Rome: Antonio Fulgoni, 1796
first edition of a description of the author's travels and experiences during his 1776-89 mission in Malabar, interspersed with information on geography, natural history, social conditions, languages, religion, culture, climate, epidemiology, etc. Streit-Dindinger VI, 692. See also lots 117 and 118.
