Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.
Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682)
Category
Books
Date
1638
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3214909
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 256, 259-364, [14] p. : ill., maps (metal cuts) ; fol. Price in ink manuscript: 5s.6. Loosely inserted (p.9) small leaf of pencil manuscript notes on "Second edition" in twentieth-century hand. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Inscribed on titlepage in seventeenth-century hand: Jobil Actone [?]; inscribed on verso of engraved title: Wm Adams books. Binding: seventeenth-century calf, sewn onto six raised bands; double blind fillet border; gilt on board edges; gilt lettered spine label: Herbert's Travels.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682)