[Rarebooks] FS - First Account of Ceylon

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KNOX, Robert (James Ryan, editor). /AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF CEYLON/. 
/Together With somewhat concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my 
life that hath happened since my Deliverance out of my Captivity./ Bound 
in publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering. James Maclehose 
and Sons, Glasgow. 1911. 1st edition, royal 8vo, pp. lxviii, 460. Spine 
and foredges of bds. sunned. Tips bumped. Spine ends a bit crinkled. Top 
of bds. scuffed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Contents clean. Very good 
condition.

Robert Knox (1641-1720) was the son of a sea captain, who went to Fort 
St. George and the Bengal in 1657, and on the homeward voyage in 1659 
was captured and made prisoner at Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He escaped in 
1679, and entered the employ of the East India Company, for whom he 
served from 1680-1694. This book, first published in 1681, is the first 
account in the English language of the Island of Ceylon, and its people. 
With 22 plates, and a large folding map of the Island of Ceylon.

Price: $300.00.

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