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MELTON, Eduward.- Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardinge Zee- en Land-Reizen door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzie
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Category:Everything Else / Other
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Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR
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0.00EUR+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Jun 08 @ 05:30UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
MELTON, Eduward.- Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardinge Zee- en Land-Reizen door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende Gewesten [...]. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1681. In-4° : [8 gegraveerde titel incl.]-495-[1 bl.-7-1 bl.] pp., 19 platen (roestvlekken op pl. p. 33, verstevigde marginale inscheuring pl. p. 408). Eigentijdse volperkamenten band met gladde rug. Eerste uitgave van de Nederlandse vertaling van deze compilatie van de reizen door de Engelse edelman Eduard Melton uit de jaren 1660 tot 1677 naar Egypte via Malta, Iran en Turkije, Noord-Amerika en Oost-Indië. De uitvoerige beschrijvingen van lotgevallen, plaatsen, gebeurtenissen en inheemse gebruiken zijn rijkelijk geillustreerd met 19 al dan niet uitslaande kopergravures (volledig) waarvan vijf gesigneerd Jan Luyken, één Jan Harrewyn en één H. Padtbrugge. Voorgesteld worden o.m. Egyptische pyramides, een karavaan in Klein-Azië, een slavenmarkt in Constantinopel, Chinese goochelaars, een ongeluk met Indiaanse kano's ter hoogte van de Cahoe watervallen op de Mohawk-rivier, enz. Zeer mooi exemplaar.# Tiele n° 738; # Sabin n° 47472 (telt blijkbaar verkeerdelijk 20 platen); # Van Eeghen n° 42; # Klaversma & Hannema n° 1066.Herkomst : Slavisch wapenschild (inktstempel op verso van typografische titel).IHFZ Edition originale de la traduction des relations de voyages en Egypte, Turquie, Perse, Amérique du Nord et dans les Indes orientales par un noble anglais effectués dans les années 1660 à 1677. Titre gravé et 19 hors-texte (rousseurs pl. p. 33, déchirure marginale sans perte et renforcée à une pl.). Plein vélin de l'époque. Bel ex. 1.200 Euros
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