- 3231
Olearius, Adam.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia. London: for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669
folio (313 x 193mm.), [20], 316, [6], 232, [10]pp., illustration: engraved additional title-page, 6 engraved folding maps, 2 engraved plates, engraved text illustration, extra-illustrated with an engraved title-page, portrait frontispiece, 4 folding maps and 81 plates (10 double-page, 4 loosely inserted), binding: contemporary calf, gilt double-fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, 1647 map of Persia torn with loss (repaired), one map creased, additional title-page repaired, binding worn
Provenance
Robert Pierce, whose books were sold at Cary Price's in Oxford on 22 June 1709, ownership inscription on title-page
Literature
Wing O270; Wilson p.162; Ghani p.286; Boleslaw Szczesniak, "The Seventeenth Century Maps of China. An Inquiry into the Compilations of European Cartographers", Imago Mundi, 13 (1956), 116-136
Catalogue Note
This fascinating confection is extra illustrated from the 1647 Schleswig and 1696 Hamburg editions of Olearius, but also contains such material as a 1655 "Exact Mapp of China, being faithfully Copied from one brought from Peking by a Father Lately resident in that City".