The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes . from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayned an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.
William Lithgow (1582-1645)
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141895
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],444,447-514,[8]p. . ill.. . 4to.. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions: "Rodolph[?] Hobbes His Booke 1657", "Charles Hobbes His Booke Apriell the 19th 1668" [probably both from the family of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire]; "Rob: Bright[?] pd John in the Lane Decr 1717". Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full leather binding; double blind fillet border; recessed cords; spine blind ruled.
Makers and roles
William Lithgow (1582-1645)