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OLEARIUS, Adam (1603-1671). Voyages très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse. Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Céne, 1727.
2 volumes in one, 2° (316 x 203mm). Half-title and title in red and black in each volume, vol.I with additional engraved title. Dedication with engraved arms and initial, 2 engraved portraits, one of the author, 40 plans, views and maps, including 5 double-page folding and 34 double-page, 59 engraved illustrations, printed in double column. (A few gatherings towards end quite browned, otherwise only lightly browned or spotted.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label (foot of spine repaired, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Julio Martinez Santa-Olalla (bookplate).
A translation of Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Reise of 1647. The first edition of Wicquefort's translation appeared in Paris, 1656; the second, 'augmentée de plus d'un tiers, particulièrement d'une seconde partie contenant le voyage de Jean Albert de Mandeslo', Paris, 1659, and Leyden, P. van der Aa, 1719 (4 volumes in 2, folio). The present edition is that of Van der Aa with a new title-page. Dutch versions appeared 1651 (Amsterdam) and later; an English translation, London, 1662. Olearius travelled as secretary to the Duke of Holstein’s Embassy to Russia, Tartary and Persia to open up trade relations—the first German expedition to Persia. His account greatly influenced European opinion of Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries. Brunet IV, 178; Graesse V, 18; Quérard VI, p. 478-479; Weber 288; Wilson 162.
2 volumes in one, 2° (316 x 203mm). Half-title and title in red and black in each volume, vol.I with additional engraved title. Dedication with engraved arms and initial, 2 engraved portraits, one of the author, 40 plans, views and maps, including 5 double-page folding and 34 double-page, 59 engraved illustrations, printed in double column. (A few gatherings towards end quite browned, otherwise only lightly browned or spotted.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label (foot of spine repaired, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Julio Martinez Santa-Olalla (bookplate).
A translation of Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Reise of 1647. The first edition of Wicquefort's translation appeared in Paris, 1656; the second, 'augmentée de plus d'un tiers, particulièrement d'une seconde partie contenant le voyage de Jean Albert de Mandeslo', Paris, 1659, and Leyden, P. van der Aa, 1719 (4 volumes in 2, folio). The present edition is that of Van der Aa with a new title-page. Dutch versions appeared 1651 (Amsterdam) and later; an English translation, London, 1662. Olearius travelled as secretary to the Duke of Holstein’s Embassy to Russia, Tartary and Persia to open up trade relations—the first German expedition to Persia. His account greatly influenced European opinion of Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries. Brunet IV, 178; Graesse V, 18; Quérard VI, p. 478-479; Weber 288; Wilson 162.
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