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LITHGOW, William (1582-1645). The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles, from Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Africa. London: Nicholas Okes, 1632.
4° (190 x 146mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 8 large woodcut illustrations. (Repaired burnhole to D3 causing minor loss to two lines recto and verso, K3 with repaired tear through catch letter, other marginal repairs, Q1 and V4 short at outer margin, Ee1 affected by paper fault, occasional soiling and staining, isolated spots.) Late 19th-century black morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt and red edges (a little rubbed). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes,10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
Fourth edition of this early travel account 'perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveighing of forty eight kingdomes ancient and moderne; twenty one rei-publickes, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands.' First published in 1614, it 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’ (ODNB). The woodcuts include a view of Fez. Cox I, 72; Howgego L134; STC 15712.5.
4° (190 x 146mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 8 large woodcut illustrations. (Repaired burnhole to D3 causing minor loss to two lines recto and verso, K3 with repaired tear through catch letter, other marginal repairs, Q1 and V4 short at outer margin, Ee1 affected by paper fault, occasional soiling and staining, isolated spots.) Late 19th-century black morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt and red edges (a little rubbed). Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes,10th Baronet (1829-1900; bookplate).
Fourth edition of this early travel account 'perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveighing of forty eight kingdomes ancient and moderne; twenty one rei-publickes, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands.' First published in 1614, it 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’ (ODNB). The woodcuts include a view of Fez. Cox I, 72; Howgego L134; STC 15712.5.
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