1678 : RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH Of TAVERNER ' S TRAVELS MIDDLE EAST & ASIA




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Reference Number: Avaluer:674997Year Printed: 1678
Language: EnglishRegion: Middle East
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
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1678 :  RARE  "FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the most important 17th-century European accounts of travel in the Middle East and Asia"
WITH A MAP OF THE PERSIAN GULF & WONDERFUL INFO ON DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS GEMS
[ PERSIA]  [INDIA ] [ CEYLON ] [JAPAN.]  [PERSIAN GULF]  TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTISTE. The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier..., through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670. Giving an Account of the... State of those Countries... Together wit a New Relation of the Present Grand Seignor's Seraglio, ... Made English by J. P. To which is added A Description of all the Kingdoms which Encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas. By an English Traveller, never before Printed. London (printed for R- L. and M. P. and are to be sold by John Starkey and Moses Pitt) 1678. FOLIO 33 x 20 cm., 22, 1-264; 1-214,  (6), 1-97, ), (8), 107-119.  TITLE PAGE AND ONE PLATE at p. 97 IN FACSIMILE. Otherwise complete   Full calf, with some wear and scuffing, handsome rebacked in a period style, later paste-downs and blanks, small tear to plate at p. 14 margin without loss, some other small marks  and some toning.  Generally, a pleasing copy.

" Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60, 000 leagues (120, 000 miles) in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668, gathering a wealth of information on the commerce of the region and trade routesthrough it. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. " [Wikipedia]



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