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VALLE (PIETRO DELLA)
The Travels... into East-India and Arabia Deserta

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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VALLE (PIETRO DELLA)

The Travels... into East-India and Arabia Deserta, imprimatur leaf, diagrams in the text, lacks plates and map, early ownership name "Henry Davids" on title with neat annotations in the margins, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine [Wing V47], folio, J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, 1665

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A translation by George Havers of the third part of the author's Viaggi .. cioè la Turchia, la Persia, e l'India, written as a series of letters during twelve years travelling from Venice to Damascus, and via Baghdad into Persia, before venturing to the east coast of India.

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