1652 TRAVAILES w/ HISTORY of STATE of TURKISH EMPIRE antique ILLUSTRATED English

Levant

Sandys (George) Sandys Travailes:
containing a History of the Originall and present State of the Turkish Empire...

by Richard Cotes, 1652.
 
fine engraved additional architectural title, folding map, folding plate, and 47 maps, plans & illustrations within text, a few full-page,

engraved title lacking small portion from outer margin up to plate-mark (repaired), folding map repaired

 generally a good clean copy


19th century calf, gilt, with central arms in blind


 lacking small portion from upper joint at foot of front cover


[Wing S677; cf. Atabey 1087, seventh edition & Blackmer 1485, second edition]

? George Sandys, (1578-1644), travelled to the Levant in 1610 and spent a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. First published in 1615, this extremely popular work was reprinted six times by 1673, its appeal largely due to the quality of its illustrations.


Small folio. Size 7 1/3 by 11 3/4 inches

Text in English
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