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SANDYS, GEORGE. A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610... Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the
SANDYS, GEORGE. A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610... Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy, and Islands adjoyning. Folding engraved view of Constantinople (missing piece of blank lower margin); numerous engraved illustrations; double-page engraved map of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (soiled, frayed along edges, and mounted). [4], 309, [1] pages, including engraved title (mounted). Small folio, contemporary calf, artlessly rebacked, endpapers conspicuously renewed; some soiling and dampstaining, particularly toward end, scattered pencil marginalia and markings, lower corner torn off E4 and I6 with text loss, scattered tears elsewhere generally not affecting text or illustrations. London: W. Barrett, 1615
- Notes: first edition. "At that time... the most elaborately illustrated English book on the Levant. Sandys... was regarded as a special authority throughout the 17th century"--Blackmer 1484 (1621 second edition). STC 21726 (this edition).
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