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ADAM OLEARIUS
Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen Orientalischen Reise. Schleswig: Jacob zur Glocken, 1647. 2° (295 x 183mm). Engraved frontispiece, title with woodcut votive bird and typgraphical border, engraved portraits of Frederick, Duke of Holstein, and the author, 9 other engraved portraits, 9 double-page plates, and 2 maps, one double-page and one folding, large text engravings. (Occasional browning, Ii3 with closed tear through catch-word and shoulder-note, small burn-hole in Yy4, old repairs to margins of L1, Ff1, Qqq3.) Contemporary calf, gilt edges (rubbed, joints cracked, spine torn at head and with lower section lacking). Provenance: John Carteret de Hawnes (bookplate) -- purchased from Chrétièn, Paris, April 1924, for frs. F. 400.
FIRST EDITION. Olearius was employed as secretary to the embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein to establish an overland trade route with Persia. A first embassy travelled to Russia in 1633-34 to secure a right of passage through the Tsar's realms. The embassy to Persia itself was sent in 1635. Although a commercial failure, much valuable information was gathered by Olearius and published in this account which includes town plans of Moscow, Ardebil and Kaschan, and maps of the Baltic and Persia, the latter after Christian Lorens. A second edition appeared in 1656, and within a few years his work was translated into Dutch, French, Italian and English. Brunet IV, 178; Wilson p. 162.
Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen Orientalischen Reise. Schleswig: Jacob zur Glocken, 1647. 2° (295 x 183mm). Engraved frontispiece, title with woodcut votive bird and typgraphical border, engraved portraits of Frederick, Duke of Holstein, and the author, 9 other engraved portraits, 9 double-page plates, and 2 maps, one double-page and one folding, large text engravings. (Occasional browning, Ii3 with closed tear through catch-word and shoulder-note, small burn-hole in Yy4, old repairs to margins of L1, Ff1, Qqq3.) Contemporary calf, gilt edges (rubbed, joints cracked, spine torn at head and with lower section lacking). Provenance: John Carteret de Hawnes (bookplate) -- purchased from Chrétièn, Paris, April 1924, for frs. F. 400.
FIRST EDITION. Olearius was employed as secretary to the embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein to establish an overland trade route with Persia. A first embassy travelled to Russia in 1633-34 to secure a right of passage through the Tsar's realms. The embassy to Persia itself was sent in 1635. Although a commercial failure, much valuable information was gathered by Olearius and published in this account which includes town plans of Moscow, Ardebil and Kaschan, and maps of the Baltic and Persia, the latter after Christian Lorens. A second edition appeared in 1656, and within a few years his work was translated into Dutch, French, Italian and English. Brunet IV, 178; Wilson p. 162.
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