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Valle, Pietro della.
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- The Travels... into East-India and Arabia Deserta... whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies. London: J. Macock, for John Place, 1665
First English edition, folio (295 x 183mm.), half-title, folding engraved map, 3 engraved plates on 2 leaves, 5 woodcut plans in text, contemporary sheep, [Wilson p.234; Wing V48A; this edition not in Atabey, Blackmer or Weber], binding worn
Catalogue Note
Pietro della Valle (1586-1652) left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to Palestine, proceeding to Baghdad and then into Persia where he married and sojourned in the court of Shah Abas. His travels continued east to the coast of India, Goa and Muscat and thence back to Aleppo by way of Basra. He reached Rome in 1626. This translation from the Italian original of 1650-63 is by Sir Thomas Roe. There were three issues of this work published in 1665.