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Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)4
Phillips, John (1631-1706)3
Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689)3
Benjamin of Tudela2
Bruggemann, Otto, 1600-16402
Davies, John (1625-1693)2
Everard, Edmund2
Herbert, Sir Thomas (1606-1682)2
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I sette libri di Xenophonte della impresa di Ciro minore

Xenophon; Domenichi, Lodovico (1515-1564)

1547

Woodcut initials, printer's device on t.p.

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Persia, seu, Regni Persici status : variaque itinera in atque per Persiam: cum aliquoticonibus incolarum

Laet, Joannes de (1581-1649); Duysend, Cornelis Claeszoon

Anno 1647

Running title: Descriptio Persiae. Dedication signed: Ioannes de Laet s.d. A literal reprint of the second of two editions pub. in 1633. Cf. Willems. Imprint date in roman numerals. Engraved t...

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Relation du voyage de Perse et des Indes Orientales : Traduite de l'anglois de Thomas Herbert. Avec les révolutions arrivées au Royaume de Siam l'an mil six cens quarante-sept. Traduites du flamand de Jeremie Van Vliet

Herbert, Sir Thomas (1606-1682); Vliet, Jeremias van; Wicquefort, Joachim; Wicquefort, Abraham de (1606-1682)

1663

Pages 140, 232, 609 and 628 wrongly numbered 40, 432, 109 and 629.

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The history of the warres of the Emperour Justinian in eight books : Of the Persian, II., Vandall, II., Gothicke, IV

Procopius; Holcroft, Sir Henry

1653

Headpieces. Some initials. Added engraved title-page, illustrated with figures. Title-page in red and black, with double ruled border.

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The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies : The first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : To which is added, The coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the Third

Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)

1686

No more published. First issue of the first English edition, with 'Directions for the book-binder for placing the cuts' in later, corrected state. A French edition was published simultaneously, but ...

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The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis : Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan... To which is added, The coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the III

Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)

1691

Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as pt. 1 of the Travels, but no more parts were issued. "Le couronnement de Soleiman Troisième" had already appeared in Paris, 1671. A reissue o...

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