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HERBERT, Thomas (1606-1682). A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, begunne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: and Some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. London: by William Stansby and Jacob Bloome, 1634.
2° (285 x 190mm). Additional engraved title by William Marshall, 36 engraved illustrations and maps in the text, woodcut device on penultimate page. (Small loss in the margin of the first and last leaves, some mostly marginal soiling including to the engraved title.) 20th-century red leather, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt (corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: indistinct title inscription in an early hand -- A.H. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Herbert accompanied the mission led by Sir Dodmore Cotton to the court of the King of Persia, arriving in the Persian Gulf in January 1627-8. Cotton died in July of the same year, but Herbert continued, making an extensive tour of the kingdom and returning to England at the end of 1629. On his return Herbert sailed close to eastern shores of North America. His chapter 'A Discourse and Proofe that Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd first found out that Continent now call'd America' is 'illustrated with quotations from the early Welsh Bards in evidence of the departure of Madoc with a number of ships and men for an unknown country at the west. The analogies in language which the author gives to prove the identification of Cymric words in Mexican names is entirely fanciful'. Alden & Landis 634/68; Arents 191; Sabin 31471; STC 13190.
2° (285 x 190mm). Additional engraved title by William Marshall, 36 engraved illustrations and maps in the text, woodcut device on penultimate page. (Small loss in the margin of the first and last leaves, some mostly marginal soiling including to the engraved title.) 20th-century red leather, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt (corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: indistinct title inscription in an early hand -- A.H. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Herbert accompanied the mission led by Sir Dodmore Cotton to the court of the King of Persia, arriving in the Persian Gulf in January 1627-8. Cotton died in July of the same year, but Herbert continued, making an extensive tour of the kingdom and returning to England at the end of 1629. On his return Herbert sailed close to eastern shores of North America. His chapter 'A Discourse and Proofe that Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd first found out that Continent now call'd America' is 'illustrated with quotations from the early Welsh Bards in evidence of the departure of Madoc with a number of ships and men for an unknown country at the west. The analogies in language which the author gives to prove the identification of Cymric words in Mexican names is entirely fanciful'. Alden & Landis 634/68; Arents 191; Sabin 31471; STC 13190.
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