Struys, Jan Janszoon (1630-1694).

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

Sehr schwere wiederwertige und Denckwürdige Reysen durch Italien, Griechenland, Lifland, Moscau, Tatarey, Medien, Persien, Türkey, Ost-Indien, Japan und unterschiedliche andere Länder. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs and Johannes van Someren, 1678

folio (303 x 190mm.), title-page printed in red and black, illustration: engraved frontispiece, double-page engraved map and 19 engraved double-page views, binding: nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, worming to upper margin, spotting, binding worn

Literature

Nordenskiöld Collection III, 689; cf. Blackmer 1616 (Dutch edition)

Catalogue Note

first german edition. Struys travelled as far as Japan on his first journey from 1647 to 1655; to the Mediterranean from late 1655 to mid-1657 on his second and into Russia, Persia and Arabia on his third voyage which lasted from September 1668 to late 1673. The work was first published in Dutch in 1676. The plates, as well as capturing fairly conventional city views, depict scenes of death by skinning, roasting, burial alive and being tossed by elephants.