Travel
STRUYS, Jan Janszoone.
The voiages and travels of John Struys through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other countries in Europe, Africa and Asia: containing remarks and observations upon the manners, religion, polities, customs and laws of the inhabitants; and a description of their several cities, towns, forts, and places of strength: together with an account of the authors many dangers by shipwreck, robbery, slavery, hunger, torture, and the like, and two narratives of the taking of Astracan by the Cossacks ...
London, Abel Swalle. 1684. Second English edition. Small 4to, engraved additional title, folding map, 19 engraved plates, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, sometime rebacked, new endpapers, an excellent copy.
Originally published in Dutch in 1676. "A very interesting and lively account of his three voyages. The first, from 1647 to 1651 took him as far as Japan. During his second journey from 1655 to 1657 he travelled extensively in the Mediterranean. His third journey, 1668 to 1673, took him to Russia, Persia, and Arabia via the Caspian Sea. The plates illustrate mostly sites in Persia and the East. Three plates refer to the [Greek] Archipelago. The last section is an extract from David Butler's letter from Astrackhan 1669, written on board the Russian ship, the Adelaar." (Blackmer). Cf. Blackmer 1616 (Dutch edition); Cordier Japonica 390; cf. Ghani p.357 (French edition); Wing S6020A; Wilson 219.
Price: £ 3500
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Stock Number: 41279