The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. . In which, the several countries, together with the custims, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: in familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir homas Roe's voyage into the East-Indies.
Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652)
Category
Books
Date
1665
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3057937
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],480p., 2 leaves of plates . plans, folded map . fol... Two pages of MS notes (17th-century hand) on end flyleaf, and calculations on stub before front flyleaf. Provenance: Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 21. Binding: Seventeenth-century calf binding, double blind fillet borders and double off-centre vertical double rules. Spine-label: Pietro Della Valle. Front board detached; in book-shoe.
Makers and roles
Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652) G. George Havers Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644) Edward Terry