A Relation of a Journey…Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 335
(SANDYS, GEORGE).

A Relation of a Journey…Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy.

Fourth edition. Four parts in one. Engraved architectural title page, double-page map of the Eastern Mediterranean, numerous engraved illustrations in the text. pp. (4), 309. Lacks (as often) the engraved view of the Sergalio, lightly worn and stained, bookplate removed. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, rubbed and worn. Sm. folio. Sold not subject to return. Roehricht 923; cf. Laor 681 and cf. Blackmer 1484.

London: for Andrew Crooke 1637

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $450
An account of a journey to the Levant in 1610 that first appeared in 1615 and was immediately well received.