Lot 183
  • 183

Lithgow, William

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. … Together with the Grievous Tortures he Suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine. London: Imprinted by I. Okes, 1640
  • paper, ink, leather
4to (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.; 188 x 140 mm). Frontispiece woodcut of the author in Turkish costume, 8 woodcut text illustrations (including a repeat of the frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpiece; dust-soiling at head of first gathering, small loss to fore-edge of Gg6 touching woodcut verso. Eighteenth-century panelled calf; rebacked, rubbed.

Provenance

John Oglander (armorial bookplate) — Jacob P. R. Lyell (armorial bookplate)

Literature

STC 15714; ESTC S108592; Blackmer 1021

Condition

4to (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.; 188 x 140 mm). Frontispiece woodcut of the author in Turkish costume, 8 woodcut text illustrations (including a repeat of the frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpiece; dust-soiling at head of first gathering, small loss to fore-edge of Gg6 touching woodcut verso. Eighteenth-century panelled calf; rebacked, rubbed.
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Catalogue Note

A revised and enlarged edition, with a new dedication and prologue, of one of the most popular of all seventeenth-century travel books.