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LITHGOW, WILLIAM. The Totall Discourse of the rare Adventures and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteen yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa. Perfited by three deare bought Voyages... London: J. Oakes, 1640. Woodcut frontispiece and 8 woodcut illustrations in text. 4to, old calf, rebacked; endpapers renewed, light staining and browning, corner of K1 chipped. STC 15714; Cox I, p. 72.
This volume is "... a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places. Thus it is probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, a pigeon post between Aleppo and Baghdad, the long Turkish tobacco-pipes, artificial incubation, and the importation (since about 1550) of currants from Zante to England..." (DNB).
This volume is "... a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places. Thus it is probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, a pigeon post between Aleppo and Baghdad, the long Turkish tobacco-pipes, artificial incubation, and the importation (since about 1550) of currants from Zante to England..." (DNB).