‎DUMONT, JEAN.‎
‎Voyages de Mr. Du Mont En France, En Italie, En Allemagne, À Malthe, Et En Turquie. 4 parts.‎

‎Haye, Foulque & Honoré, 1699. Large12mo. 4 part uniformly bound in 2 full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Extremities with wear, boards with several worm holes, upper capitals with wear, corners bumped and missing small parts. Internally with light occassional brownspots and a few worm tract and marginal dampstaining.Title-page to vol 4 closely trimmed with lower of text to lower margin. (10), 336, (24) (2), 337, (21) (2), 281, (23) (2), 356, (45) pp. + 7 folded plates and 1 frontispiece.‎

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‎Second enlarged edition of Dumont's account of his voyages which became highly popular - party because of this work he was named official historiographer to king Charles VI. “Born in Rouen in 1667, Jean Dumont, a French Protestant, was enrolled in the army of which he became captain after taking part in campaigns in the Palatinate and Schwabia. He left the army after he was arrested, falsely suspected of espionage. After his release, he left for Italy and then for Turkey on 26 May 1690. In August 1692, after travelling across Germany on his was back he went to the Hague, where he published his ‘Nouveau voyage du Levant’ in 1694. He dedicated it to William of Schuylenburg, Lord of Dukenburg, “counsellor and clerk to the council to his Britannic Majesty”, who was “ the support of so many illustrious exiles, whom the tempest of the age has cast upon the shores of Holland…”. An enlarged edition was published in 1699 (The present work). He later studied and taught law. He also became historiographer to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and was made Baron of Carlscroon. He died in Vienna on 13th May 1727. (Christians under the Ottoman Turks) Cox I, 217Brunet VI, 20058‎