The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys. . Through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Muscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts, and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and, III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships. To which are added 2 narrativs sent from Capt. D. Butler, relating to the taking in of Astrachan by the Cosacs. Illustrated with divers curious plates, first designed and taken from the life by the author himself. Rendered out of Nether-dutch by John Morrison.
Jan Janszoon Struys (d.1694)
Category
Books
Date
1683
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3124654
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],378,[10]p.,[19] leaves of plates . 4to.. Imperfect: wanting the letterpress title page; wanting sigs. [dagger] 1-2 and 4, *1, **4; wanting ?plates. Engraved title page mounted. Two loose booksellers descriptions of other copies of this work inserted in front. Provenance: manuscript on back flyleaf in two seventeenth-century hands: (1) John Ellis His Book ...; (2) If anyone this Book do fin[d] I hope that they Will be so ki[] Willm Atkinso[n] His Book. manuscript on folded plate between pp. 44-45 in a seventeenth-century hand: John Struys London. Black ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: Seventeenth-century remains of calf, gilt floral-tooled spine and marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges. Twentieth-century rebacking, dark brown spine label and leather corners; pale grey cloth used as spine support.
Makers and roles
Jan Janszoon Struys (d.1694)