Bernier, François

HISTOIRE DE LA DERNIERE REVOLUTION DES ETATS DU GRAND MOGOL [Four Volumes]

Paris: Claude Barbin, 1670, 1671. 12mo., Four Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary mottled calf with paneled spines with gilt titling and tooling. Some moderate rubbing and general shelfwear. Edges of text blocks speckled red. Bookplate of Hopetoun to front pastedowns, library number '1574' pasted to top panel of volume 1; lacking folding map to volume 1. Text in French. SH Consignment. Shelved in Case 9.

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NOTES

Title of v. 2 reads: Évenemens particuliers, ou ce qui se̓st passé de plus considerable aprés la guerre pendant cinq ans, ou environ, dans les états du Grand Mogol. Avec vne lettre de le̓́tenduë de lH̓indoustan, circulation de lo̓r & de la̓rgent pour venir sy̓ abîmer, richesses, forces, iustice, & caus principale de la décadence des états dA̓sie./ Title of v. [3-4] reads: Svite des memoires dv Sr. Bernier, svr l'empire dv Grand Mogol.

François Bernier (1620-1688) was a French physician and traveller who spent 12 years in India, where his medical knowledge gave him immense access for a European. He served as a medical doctor at the court of Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors.;