MARTYR, PETER. The History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eiyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Etiopea, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage...Gathered in parte, and done into Englysshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde Willes. London: by Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small 4to, contemporary calf, both covers blind-panelled with blind-stamped central medallion, rebacked in the seventeenth-century, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece (chipped and partly detached), traces of ties, leather of upper cover cracking, 2 small holes to lower cover, spine and joints rubbed, restorations to corners, tail of spine, and fore-edge of upper cover, cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, some soiling, some spotting from mould, occasionally partly effacing letters, mostly marginal dampstains, entering text of the last 100 leaves, a few side-notes shaved, a couple of small marginal tears and one small marginal repair. Second edition of The Decades of the newe worlde (1555), with additions and omissions, black letter, woodcut ornamental initials, one woodcut diagram. Church 119; Hill, pp. 92-3; Sabin 1562; Streeter sale I, 24; STC 649; Alden 577/2; Borba de Moraes [1983], p. 532-3.This expanded edition contains much new material on Asia: Pereira's description of China (the first account in English), Varthema's travels, Maffei's account of Japan, and various narratives of English travellers in Russia and Central Asia.Provenance: One contemporary marginal annotation.

MARTYR, PETER. The History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eiyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Etiopea, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage...Gathered in parte, and done into Englysshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde Willes. London: by Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small 4to, contemporary calf, both covers blind-panelled with blind-stamped central medallion, rebacked in the seventeenth-century, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece (chipped and partly detached), traces of ties, leather of upper cover cracking, 2 small holes to lower cover, spine and joints rubbed, restorations to corners, tail of spine, and fore-edge of upper cover, cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, some soiling, some spotting from mould, occasionally partly effacing letters, mostly marginal dampstains, entering text of the last 100 leaves, a few side-notes shaved, a couple of small marginal tears and one small marginal repair. Second edition of The Decades of the newe worlde (1555), with additions and omissions, black letter, woodcut ornamental initials, one woodcut diagram. Church 119; Hill, pp. 92-3; Sabin 1562; Streeter sale I, 24; STC 649; Alden 577/2; Borba de Moraes [1983], p. 532-3. This expanded edition contains much new material on Asia: Pereira's description of China (the first account in English), Varthema's travels, Maffei's account of Japan, and various narratives of English travellers in Russia and Central Asia. Provenance: One contemporary marginal annotation.

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MARTYR, PETER. The History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eiyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes. As Moscovia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Etiopea, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan: With a discourse of the Northwest passage...Gathered in parte, and done into Englysshe by Richarde Eden. Newly set in order, augmented, and finished by Richarde Willes. London: by Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small 4to, contemporary calf, both covers blind-panelled with blind-stamped central medallion, rebacked in the seventeenth-century, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece (chipped and partly detached), traces of ties, leather of upper cover cracking, 2 small holes to lower cover, spine and joints rubbed, restorations to corners, tail of spine, and fore-edge of upper cover, cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, some soiling, some spotting from mould, occasionally partly effacing letters, mostly marginal dampstains, entering text of the last 100 leaves, a few side-notes shaved, a couple of small marginal tears and one small marginal repair. Second edition of The Decades of the newe worlde (1555), with additions and omissions, black letter, woodcut ornamental initials, one woodcut diagram. Church 119; Hill, pp. 92-3; Sabin 1562; Streeter sale I, 24; STC 649; Alden 577/2; Borba de Moraes [1983], p. 532-3.

This expanded edition contains much new material on Asia: Pereira's description of China (the first account in English), Varthema's travels, Maffei's account of Japan, and various narratives of English travellers in Russia and Central Asia.

Provenance: One contemporary marginal annotation.