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Second edition. Small folio (27.5 x 18 cm). Engraved title, [8], pp. 364, [14]. 19th century half black morocco over pebbled cloth boards by Hersant (their stamp to verso of flyleaf), spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, marbled endpapers. Fully illustrated with extra engraved title and 45 copper engravings including 6 maps. Ex libris John Copleston with his signature repeated three times on one endpaper, along with those of three others on the following two endpapers. Copleston was a 17th-century English army officer, a supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and Interregnum. Some sunning to upper portion of cloth, contents clean save for some light toning and occasional faint spotting, generally a very good copy. Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1682), courtier to Charles I, traveller and author, made an extensive tour in Persia, Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Surat, and coasted the Eastern shores of North America on his return to England from a diplomatic mission headed by Sir Dodmore Cotton in 1926. First published in 1634, this work is one of the best records of 17th-century travel, including remarkable illustrations of Persepolis, cuneiform inscriptions, and the dodo. It was expanded by Herbert in many editions over his lifetime. Herbert travelled to Persia in 1627 as part of the disastrous embassy of Sir Dodmore Cotton, visiting 'the notable Persian cities of Gombroon [modern Bandar Abbas], Shiraz, Esfahan, Ashraf, Qazvin, and Qom as well as other Asian and African locales such as Surat, Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena' (ODNB). Notably the work contains an extensive section on the Persian Gulf (pp. 109-119), containing descriptions of Muscat and Hormuz, and a vignette containing two coastal views. "The book had great vogue in its time. Written in a lively and agreeable style, it contains much that is interesting and curious, particularly a dissertation to prove that America was discovered three hundred years before Columbus by one Madoc ap Owen" (DNB IX 667). Wing H1534; Sabin 31471.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 4to. 15 printed typed pages enclosed in a plastic sleeve with white plastic spine. . Designated on the cover as 'Draft. Not for Publication' -- there is mention of 4 illustrations which are not in this version. Many pencil notes in the hand of the portrait photographer Pamela Chandler from whose estate this was purchased., some full page on the back of Hallett's typed pages. Of interest is a good paragraph about her photographing JRR Tolkien a session that she describes as taking place in his garage in Oxford, where he wrote - 'it was lined with books in all the different languages in which they had been published.' She became quite friendly with Tolkien and his wife and used to correspond with them occasionally. Other famous sitters included Robert Helpmann, a teenage Charlotte Rampling Harold Macmillan and Bertrand Russell Very good indeed.…

39x56cm. David Teniers (1610-1690), very influential Flemish painter. - Marie Cathérine Riollet (1755 1788), French painter.