Engraved folding map (often missing). Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked. pp. (xvi), 258, 176, 102, (i – publisher’s advertisement). 8vo. (2 volumes in one).

The French scholar-physican Bernier’s account of his travels in Mughal India is one of the great travel books of the 17th century. Its impact on European perceptions was profound. It is related that when Bernier went to call on a geographer friend on his deathbed in Paris, the dying man’s first question was: ‘Well! What news have you of the Great Mogul?’