Travel
BARBARO, Josafa; Ambrogio Contarini
Travels to Tana and Persia, by ... Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., And Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley [AND] A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Translated and Edited by Charles Grey.
Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London 1873. First edition. 2 volumes in 1 8vo., xi, 175 pp; xvii, 231 pp., Blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine and edges toned, hinges cracked, head of spine chipped. Bookplate, blindstamp, and spine label of the Royal United Service Institution.
Hakluyt Society, First Series, nos. 49a & 49b. The two editions are bound together but separately paginated. The second contains accounts by Caterino Zeno, Giovan Maria Angiolello, Vincentio d'Alessandri, and an unknown merchant.
Price: £ 250
US Dollar Price: $ 380
Stock Number: 66725