Lot 151
  • 151

Middle East

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 6 seventeenth-century folio volumes, travel in the East, including:
  • paper
Tavernier, Jean Baptiste. The Six Voyages... through Turky into Persia. 1678, 24 engraved plates, modern half calf, edges of text softened and affected by damp
Fryer, John. A New Account of East-India and Persia. 1698, engraved portrait and 8 plates and maps, modern leather-backed cloth, some staining, browning and soiling
Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-sight of Palestine. 1662, engraved additional title and 23 (of 28) double-page maps and plates, contemporary calf, lacks 5 plates, 3 plates cut down and worn at edges, binding worn, rebacked
Sandys, G. Travells, containing an history of the... Turkish Empire... sixth edition. 1670, engraved double-page map, eighteenth-century half calf, lacks additional title and one plate, soiled
and 2 others, by Sandys and Della Valle, together 6 volumes, all folio; sold not subject to return

Condition

Poor copies
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