Author: GREY, Edward (editor)
Title: The Travels of Pietro Della Valle in India. From the Old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers
Description: London, The Hakluyt Society, 1892. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Modern blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 2pp, 3pp, iv, lvi, 192pp; xii, pp. 193-454pp, (2pp), 16pp ads. Illustration, floor plans, 2 foldout maps. Overall very good. Text block lightly age toned; first of two foldouts a bit rough, with neat archival reinforcement of delicate folds. A tight and nice first of this edition, being numbers 84 and 85 in the first series. Inoffensive ex-library (Wisconsin State Historical Society), with very few markings and none on the books' spines. Della Valle (1586-1652) was an Italian nobleman, a composer and musicologist who traveled widely and authored a number of accounts of his exotic travels. .
Keywords: Travel & Exploration
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Title: The Travels of Pietro Della Valle in India. From the Old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers
Description: London, The Hakluyt Society, 1892. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Modern blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 2pp, 3pp, iv, lvi, 192pp; xii, pp. 193-454pp, (2pp), 16pp ads. Illustration, floor plans, 2 foldout maps. Overall very good. Text block lightly age toned; first of two foldouts a bit rough, with neat archival reinforcement of delicate folds. A tight and nice first of this edition, being numbers 84 and 85 in the first series. Inoffensive ex-library (Wisconsin State Historical Society), with very few markings and none on the books' spines. Della Valle (1586-1652) was an Italian nobleman, a composer and musicologist who traveled widely and authored a number of accounts of his exotic travels. .
Keywords: Travel & Exploration
Price: US$ 275.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 43193
- Book number: 43193
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