Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Title:
A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).
Published / Created:
London : Printed and published in Great Britain by The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Physical Description:
[2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Maps on lining-papers.
Subject Terms:
Voyages and travels. | Discoveries in geography. | Indonesia -- Discoverly and exploration. | Indonesia -- Description and travel. | East Indies -- Description and travel. | East Asia -- Description and travel. | Private press books -- London -- England -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Wood engravings -- 1937.
Contributors:
Clark, Stephanie, translator. | Clark, Denis, translator. | Gibson, Ashley, editor. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Rutter, Owen, 1889-1944, printer. | Sandford, Christopher, printer. | Sandford, Anthony, printer.