BARBARO, JOSAFA & AMBROGIO CONTARINI. Stanley of Alderey, Henry Edward John & Charles Grey. (eds). - Travels to Tana and Persia by Giosafat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini. Translated from the Italian by William Thomas [...] and by S.A. [i.e. Eugene Armand] Roy and edited, with intruduction, by [...] [ Henry Edward John] Stanley of Alderey. - [WITH:] A narrative of Italian travels in Persia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Translated and editied by Charles Grey.

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1873. 2 parts in 1. XI,173, XVII,229 pp. Orig. blind stamped blue cloth, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. - Pages still uncut (as issued). (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, [1st series], no. [49]).st edition. 2 volumes in 1 [as issued], 8vo, xi, 175 pp; xvii, 231 pp., blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine and edges toned, hinges cracked, head of spine chipped. Bookplate, blindstamp, and spine label of the Royal United Service Institution. Hakluyt Society, first series, 49a & 49b.A very good copy of this rare volume with an important collection of early travels to Persia. The second part contains accounts by Venetian travallers Caterino Zeno and Giovanni Maria Angiolello, and Vincentio d'Alessandri, a Venetian ambassador to Persia during the 16th century, and an unknown merchant.

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