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Ides Evert Ysbrants' Three Years Travels 1706 Ides Evert Ysbrants' [I]Three Years Travels from Mosco

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Ides Evert Ysbrants' Three Years Travels 1706 Ides Evert Ysbrants' [I]Three Years Travels from Mosco
<B>Ides Evert Ysbrants' <I>Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China:</B></I></B></I> <I>Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary &c. to Peking...</B></I> (London: Freeman, 1706), first English edition, 210 pages, engraved title page and 29 plates (many foldouts), 8vo (7.75" x 9.75"), contemporary blind stamped calf, rebacked. In 1692, a Dutchman named Evert Ysbrants Ides was asked by Peter the Great of Russia to serve as ambassador to the Emperor of China. Before his return to Moscow in 1695, he passed through many countries and regions and this is the first English account of those journeys. Light foxing.