DESHAYES Louis. Les voyages de M. Deshayes, baron de Courmemin, en Dannemarc. Enrichis d’annotations par le Sieur Promé Marchand Libraire.

Barbier, 1099; Blackmer, 1360.

First edition of this travel account by Louis Deshayes, advisor and head butler to French King Louis XIII. In 1624 he was sent to Denmark to assist Christian IV of Denmark and Gustave-Adolphe of Sweden and help to reinforce their alliance against the Turkish occupation of Austria. The Voyages au Danemark contains details about the Danish court as well as notes on Zealande, Baltic rivers, and the northern German regions of Holstein and Schleswig.

[Bound with] : 

QUICLET. Les voyages de M. Quiclet à Constantinople par terre. Enrichi d’annotations par le Sieur Promé. Paris, François Clousier, 1664. 12mo, 4 nn.ll., 246 pp., 1 blank leaf at end.

Koç Collection, 60; not in Blackmer nor Atabey.

First edition of this travel account to the Levant in the years 1655. 

Quiclet arrived in Adrianopolis in 1658 after having travelled through Bosnia, Belgrade and Belgrade et Philippopolis. The book is particularly interesting in the author’s attemps to insist on the importance of keeping up the diplomatic relations with Turkey.

“Several variant issues of this title exist; in some Pierre Promé is given as the publisher. The privilege was assigned to Jean Promé in 1663 and extended to Clousier and Bienfait in 1664, but there is no evidence that the Promé imprint has priority. Very little is known of Quiclet. He travelled in the Levant in the 1650s, and reached Adrianople by 1658, where his account stops… Presumably Promé himself added the description of Constantinople” (Koç). 

Some overall light wear; title pages to the works misbound.