A RELATION OF SOME YEARES TRAVAILE, BEGUNNE ANNO 1626, INTO AFRIQUE AND THE GREATER ASIA, ESPECIALLY THE TERRITORIES OF THE PERSIAN MONARCHIE

by Persia Travel, 17TH Century, Thomas Herbert

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition

London: printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634 . 290 x 195 mm. 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 . 6 p.l., 225, 15 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, traces of old paper label to spine, pastedowns lifted to reveal leather bands and manuscript document fragments used as sewing guards, all edges sprinkled red expert repair to rear joint . With additional engraved

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