SCHOUTEN (Wouter). Voiage aux Indes orientales. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1708. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, double gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, green morocco title-papers, gilt library mark on tail, inner lace, gilt edges (Period binding). Second edition of the French translation of this account of a voyage to Southeast Asia, undertaken between 1658 and 1665 on the ships of the Dutch East India Company. The illustrations consist of a frontispiece repeated in both volumes, a portrait of the author and 10 folding plates engraved in intaglio showing views of the places visited. During his voyage to Batavia, Wouter Schouten (1638-1704), a surgeon from Haarlem, successively visited the Moluccas and the Indonesian island of Celebes, the kingdom of Arakan, Java, Ceylon, Formosa, Coromandel and Malacca. His account "is one of the most curious that can be read; it contains valuable particulars on the countries that the author saw", according to Michaud. Prestigious copy bound by Anguerrand for President de Lamoignon. Chrétien-François de Lamoignon (1735-1789), president à mortier of the Parlement de Paris, was the last guardian of a family collection of nearly 5,000 works begun in the mid-seventeenth century. The books in this collection are identified by an inventory number on the spine, the typographical ex-libris of the Bibliotheca Lamoniana and a wet stamp with the initial L crowned on p. 3 of the text. They were bound by Pierre Anguerrand, received master in 1726, then by his son Étienne, master in 1747. A very fine and fresh copy. From the libraries of Lamoignon (1791, II, n°3709), with bookplate and stamp; William Beckford, at Hamilton Palace (1883, III, n°1826, where the bindings are attributed to Padeloup), with bookplate; and finally Roger Paultre (1993, n°266), with bookplate. Chadenat, n°1737 - Howgego, S66 - Michaud, XXXVIII, 431