[Rarebooks] FS: Tavernier's travels to Persia, Turkey & India. London: 1678

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(TRAVEL) Tavernier, John Baptista. THE SIX VOYAGES OF JOHN BAPTISTA 
TAVERNIER, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turkey, into Persia, and the 
East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670. Giving an Account of the State of Those 
Countries. Illustrated with Divers Sculptures. Together with a New Relation of 
the Present Grand Seignor’s Seraglio... Made English by J[ohn]. P[hillips]. To 
Which Is Added a Description of All Kingdoms Which Encompass the Euxine and 
Caspian Seas. By an English Traveller... London: Printed for R. L. and M. P... 
1678. Folio. 4 parts in 1, each with its own title-page (parts 3 & 4 dated 
1677). (2),2,(14),264;(4),214,(2);(6),98;(8),(107)-119pp. Plus (3)pp. ads. 
Illustrated with 24 copper engraved plates (1 folding). Cont. calf, rather worn & 
chipped, gilt ornamented spine (rubbed), front hinge cracked but holding well. 
Minor worming at top inner blank margin (text unaffected). Blank fore-edge of 
title slightly chipped.     $6,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very important text on travel to Persia, Turkey and India. See Wing T256; 
there are four issues of this first English translation, two dated 1677 and two 
dated 1678. Sinkankas, GEMOLOGY, #6504.

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