Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 1,722
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
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. 3 engraved portraits; 7 folding engraved maps. [26] (of [28]), 424, [4], 168, 171-287, [11] pages; lacks frontispiece. Folio, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped; contents toned, small portion torn from upper margin of general title with surrounding tape discoloration, hole in upper corner of H2 and clean tears in maps of the Volga and Persia repaired with cellotape, maps of Kilan, the East Indies, and China cropped in blank outer margin. London: Thomas Dring and John Starkey, 1662

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first edition in english. Howgego I, M38; Wing O-269.