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FIRST EDITION OF THE FAMOUS TRAVEL NARRATIVE TAVERNIER, JEAN-BAPTISTE. The Six Voyages... through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies.. .
FIRST EDITION OF THE FAMOUS TRAVEL NARRATIVE TAVERNIER, JEAN-BAPTISTE. The Six Voyages... through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies... Together with a New Relation of the Present Grand Seignor's Seraglio... To which is added a Description of All the Kingdoms which encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas. By an English Traveller, never before printed. 24 engraved plates. [6], 2, [16], 264; [2], 214, [2]; [6], 119, [3] pages. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, late 17th-century panelled calf with gilt arms of Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield (1633-1713), rebacked, endpapers renewed. London: R. L. and M. P. for John Starkey and Moses Pitt, 1678
- Notes: first edition in english of one of the most important 17th-century European accounts of travel in the Middle East and Asia, written by a Parisian jeweller and first published in 1676 in French. The second part is of particular interest from a gemological standpoint, describing Tavernier's travels in India and dealings there in precious stones. "His visit to the court of the Great Mogul and to the diamond mines was connected with the plans realized more fully in his later voyages, in which Tavernier traded in costly jewels and other precious wares among the greatest princes of the East" (EB). Sinkankas 6503; Wing T256.
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