The voiages and travels of John Struys through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other countries in Europe, Africa and Asia: . containing remarks and observations upon the manners, religion, polities, customs and laws of the inhabitants; and a description of their several cities, towns, forts, and places of strength: together with an account of the authors many dangers by shipwreck, robbery, slavery, hunger, torture, and the like. And two narratives of the taking of Astracan by the Cossacks, sent from Captain D. Butler. Illustrated with copper plates, designed and taken from the life by the author himself. Done out of Dutch, by Johh [sic] Morrison.
Jan Janszoon Struys (d.1694)
Category
Books
Date
1684
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3126914
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],378,[26]p.,[18] folding plates . ill.., map . 4to.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Eighteenth-century manuscript initials on flyleaf: J. E. [?] and D.A.J. [?]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: Colne Park 17/= H. [i.e. Hodgson's] 18/1 40 Lot 346 [Colne Park, Essex]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf over boards; brown leather spine label with title 'Struys's Voyages'; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Jan Janszoon Struys (d.1694) Captain David Butler John Morrison (fl.17th century)