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OLEARIUS, ADAM; and MANDELSLO, JOHANN ALBRECHT VON. The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia.Begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent Countries . . . Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo . . . from Persia, into the East-Indies . . . Second Edition Corrected. 2 engraved portraits; 6 folding or double-page engraved maps. [20], 316; [6], 232, [12] pages, including 2-leaf bookseller's catalogue at end. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 322x198 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight damage at bottom of spine, endpapers renewed; contents relatively clean, map of Volga partly separated at folds and crudely reinforced on verso. Bookplates of Viscount Gage and Norman J. Sondheim. London: John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669
Second edition of a translation first published in 1662, made from a 1659 version in French. The original German texts appeared in 1656 and 1658. Wing O-269.
