TAVERNIER (JEAN BAPTISTE)


The Six Travels... Through Turky and Persia to the Indies, During the Space of Forty Years... Made English by J[ohn] P[hillips], 3 parts in 1 vol., 23 engraved plates and maps (as called for, several folding), contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled within raised bands, joints neatly repaired with later gilt morocco spine label, rubbed at extremities of spine [ESTC R184885], folio (290 x 190mm.), London, [no publisher], 1684
|Unusual issue of the 1684 edition of Tavernier's descriptions of his travels through Turkey, Persia, India and the East Indies, undertaken between 1638 and 1668. This copy collates: [14], 184, 195-264, [6], 214, [6], 113, [1]. The first two parts, each with same title and text (printed with variant types) have the imprint "London: Printed in the Year 1684", the third part ("A New Relation of the Inner-Part of the Grand Segnor's Seraglio") has the imprint "London, Printed, and Sold by R.L. and Moses Pitt. 1684".Provenance: Gilbert Nicholson, of Balrath, Co. Meath (1620-1709), bookplate.