Struys’ travels, with map and 19 plates. Provenance: Henry Blackmer

Jan Janszoon Struys:

Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige reysen, door Italien, Griekenlandt, Lijflandt, Moscovien, Tartarijen, Meden, Persien, Oost-Indien, Japan, en verscheyden andere Gewesten.

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs and Johannes van Someren, 1676. 4to. (20 x 15 cms.) [8] + 378 + 46 pp. + engraved title + folding engraved map + 19 engraved double-page plates.

Old half calf, worn, spine and corners renewed, endpapers foxed, a few light stains and faint corner dampstain towards end, plates with occasional slight cropping of image surface or captions, the map and a plate with short tears along folds. Provenance: Bookplates of A. I. Ward and Henry Blackmer.

First edition of Struys’ description of his travels 1647-1673 to Japan, the Mediterranean countries, Russia, Persia and Arabia. Blackmer 616. Blackmer Sale 317. Cordier, Bibl. Japonica, p. 387.

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