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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. "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.

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