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HERBERT, THOMAS, Sir. Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan. Folding double-page etched view of the ruins of Persepolis by Wenceslaus Hollar; engraved illustrations and maps in text throughout. [8], 420, [20] pages, including engraved additional title. Folio, 284x189 mm, 17th-century sheep with 19th-century morocco lettering piece and blind-stamped arms of William Bagot, second(?) Baron Bagot on covers, spine heavily worn, joints cracked, cords intact; some soiling, scattered stains and clean tears, title torn in lower outer corner and restored slightly affecting rule border, lower outer corner off D4 with text loss, contemporary inscription on verso of additional title. Signature of Charles Bagot on front free endpaper. London: J. Best for Andrew Crook, 1664
Third edition of Herbert's 1634 first-hand account of the ill-fated English embassy to Persia in 1627-30, with extensive background material taken from other sources; scarce issue with title dated 1664. Pages 415-17 deal with the supposed pre-Columbian discovery of the New World by the Welshman Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd. Alden 664/91; Ghani, page 176 ("one of the best of the early Western books on Persia"); Wing H1533A.
