[RHODES, Alexandre de] Divers voyages de la Chine, et autres royaumes de l'Orient. Avec le retour de l'autheur en Europe, par la Perse & l'Armenie [...]. Paris Ch. Journel 1682 4to: [8]-342 pp. (some wormwork in inner marg. in 1st part, some spotting). Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine (few spots). Rare later ed. (1st 1653) of Rhodes' account of his travels and missions in Asia (Goa, "île de Salsède", Malacca, Macau, Conchinchina, Tonkin and Makassar) and his return to Europe through Persia and Armenia. Destined for Japan, the Jesuit missionary and linguist A. de Rhodes (1591-1660) arrived at Macau in 1623, but was then sent to Vietnam. He was active there until he got banished in 1645 and sentenced to death. After his sentence was reduced to exile, he returned to Rome. He was later sent to Persia where he died in 1660. Rhodes was one of the first Europeans to travel through Cochinchina and Tonkin. Woodcut title-vignette. Ref. DBS VI:1720 - Cordier, Sinica, 2081. Prov. Member of the family Harouard de Suarez d'Aulan (18th-c. arm. bookpl.).