Voyage en divers États d'Europe et d'Asie entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine

Author: Philippe Avril (1654-1698) Year: 1692Publisher: Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis JossePlace: ParisDescription:title+[pictorial plate]+xvii+folding map+406+xxiv pages with engraved initials and vignettes, and two additional plates and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/2") bound in full leather with five raised bands and lettering in gilt and decorative vignettes. First edition.Philippe Avril was a Jesuit explorer of the Far East and professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris when he was dispatched to the Jesuit missions of China. He was summoned by the Jesuit missions and sent as a Jesuit to the missions in China. Following the instructions of Ferdinand Verbiest, another Jesuit, then at Peking suggested that he attempted an overland journey which he ended up traveling for six years through Kurdistan, Armenia, Astrakhan, Persia, and other countries of eastern Asia arriving at Moscow. He now traveled to Grodno in Poland, where he renewed an acquaintance with Co