MORYSON (FYNES)


An Itinerary... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, 3 parts in one vol., FIRST EDITION, woodcut ornaments on titles, woodcut illustrations in the text, 2 additional leaves bound in [see footnote], without opening blank leaf, blindstamped calf antique retaining old red morocco gilt spine label [ESTC 18205; Atabey 841; Blackmer 1159; Cobham-Jeffery, p.43], folio (312 x 203mm.), John Beale, 1617
|Fynes Moryson travelled extensively through Europe between 1591 and 1595, and to the Levant from 1595 to 1597. He visited Venice and Cyprus, and then went on to Jerusalem with his brother Henry, who was to die there. This copy has 2 additional leaves bound in, variant printings of pp.271/2 in Part I and p.61/2 in Part III, in which the description of Scotland has been excluded.Provenance: Isaac Keene, 10 April 1739, ownership inscription on final blank.