75/2722 [China]. Avril, P. Reize Door verscheidene Staten van Europa en Asia, als Turkyen, Persien, Armenien, het Zuider-Tartaryen, Muscovien, Poolen, beide de Pruissens en Moldavien. Gedaan zedert den Jaare 1685. tot 1692. Behelzende Veele naaukeurige aanmerkingen, zoo in de Natuur-kunde, Land en Zee-beschrijvinge, als in de Historien. Nevens de beschrijvinge van Groot-Tartaryen, en de Volkeren die het zelve bewoonen. Dutch transl. H. vv. Quellenburgh. Utr., A. Schouten, 1694, (12),191,(6)p., engr. frontisp. and 4 plates, modern hvellum, sm 4to.

- Partly (vaguely) waterstained in blank margin; second half of the book w. brown stain in upper inner margin, sl. touching the text, worsening towards the end, causing a brittle spot in the last part w. dam. in blank margin along hinge (last 3 lvs. repaired w. tape, last leaf w. loss of a few letters).

= Rare Dutch edition. Cat. NHSM I, p.134; Tiele 61; Cordier, Bibl. Sinica p.2089; Henze I, p.118/119; cf. Lust 311/ 312 and Cox I, p.75f for the English and French eds. "Since Avril's book was to be a guide for missionaries getting to China by overland routes, it is particularly strong on the Russian side, and the fringe regions of north and northwest China. Somewhat muddled but interesting on Jesuit outlooks, and on advances in Asian geography." (Lust).