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TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste (1605-1689). A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious ... not printed among his first six voyages. Translated by Edmund Everard. London: A. Godbid & J. Playford for Moses Pitt, 1680.
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TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste (1605-1689). A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious ... not printed among his first six voyages. Translated by Edmund Everard. London: A. Godbid & J. Playford for Moses Pitt, 1680.
2o. Engraved folding map and 8 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Tavernier spent 30 years travelling in the East as a merchant. Between 1638 and 1668 he made six voyages from Turkey to Persia, India, the East Indies and Japan, and by indicating the safe routes he did much to open up trade between East and West. Wing T-250.
2o. Engraved folding map and 8 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Tavernier spent 30 years travelling in the East as a merchant. Between 1638 and 1668 he made six voyages from Turkey to Persia, India, the East Indies and Japan, and by indicating the safe routes he did much to open up trade between East and West. Wing T-250.