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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. Engraved frontispiece and 2 portraits; 6 folding or double-page engraved maps; engraved table of the Ruthenian alphabet in text. [20], 316; [6], 232, [9] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 322x199 mm, modern 1/4 calf; contents generally clean apart from occasional marginal soiling and isolated minor spotting, vertical paper crack in blank outer margin of title, large map of the Volga partly tissue-mounted and reinforced along one fold with 2 repaired holes, one of them causing slight image loss, corner off map of Persia with slight loss to border. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Sir L[awrence?] Dundas Bart. of Kerse. 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. Ghani, page 286; Wing O-269.
