TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste.
The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier,
a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670. Giving an account of the state of those countries. Illustrated with divers sculptures. Together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor&#
Stock Code
107268
London, printed for R[obert]. L[ittlebury]. and M[oses]. P[itt]. and are to be sold by John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street, near Temple Bar, and Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1678
£4,500
Description
First edition in English. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm), [2], 2, [18], 184, 195-264, [2], 214, [8], 119, [3] pp., 24 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 with short split to fold), contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked preserving old red morocco lettering piece, lower outer corner upper board repaired, a very good copy.
Bibliography
cf. Blackmer 1632; Sinkankas 6504.
Stock ID:107268
