- DELLON (Charles). Relation of a voyage to the East Indies. Dedicated to Monseigneur l'évêque de Meaux. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1685, 3 parts in one vol. in-12, [8] ff. n. ch. (faux-title & title, dedication to Bossuet, preface, table of chapters), 284 pp, [2] ff. n. ch. of privilege ; [4] ff. n. ch. (relay title, table), 172 pp. and 62 pp. Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux], [2] ff. n. ch. of privilege, paper missing on f. 25-26 of volume I, with loss of some letters, brown basane, spine ribbed, cloisonné and fleuronné, cherry-coloured title-piece. Binding of the period. (restoration to corners and headpieces, light wetness). Very rare first edition, without engravings unlike the second edition of 1699. Charles Dellon (1649-after 1709), a doctor or surgeon, had entered in 1667 the service of the East India Company, and he embarked in Le Havre in March 1668 on the Force, for a long journey which led him to Bourbon Island, Dauphine Island, Madagascar (where he stayed a whole year), Surat, Calicut and Daman. His dealings with the Portuguese Inquisition, his imprisonment, his transfer to Lisbon, his release through Bossuet, are the subject of another title (Relation de l'Inquisition de Goa, 1687). Ex libris manuscript François Lilledieu Dubied.