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Folio, 272 x 180 mms., pp. [II], 309 [310 blank, 311 autographs of Sara Moone and Thomas Page 1783, 313 blank],engraved title-page followed by double page engraved map, folding panorama plate between second page of dedication and first page of text, engraved plates within text on pages 24 (map), 30, 33 (full-page), 39, 40, 41, 68, 80, [87; I2r], 95 (full-page), 96, 105, 128, 130, 133, 158 (map), 162 (floor plan), 164, 165, 166, 175, 178, 179, 180 (floor plans), 183, 184, 185, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196. 198, 661 [sic for 199], 201, 231, 261, 265, 266, 258, 271, 279, 285, and 290, bound in early 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, fragment of label; some fore-margins closely trimmed with occasional loss of a letter, a few spots and stains in text, lower and upper joints very slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy with "Thomas Page his Book" inscribed on top margin of the recto of the first free end-paper and again on the verso of leaf before title-page, and, as noted above, on the recto of the first end-paper with the date 1783 just below the autograph, probably early 18th century of "Sara Moons". The writer and traveller George Sandys (1578 1644), the ninth and youngest son of the Archbishop of York f Edwin Sandys (1519? 1588) first published this title in 1615, followed by six other editions, in 1621, 1627, 1632, 1637, 1638, and. after his death, in 1670. Ioli Vingopoulou writes, "Sandys travelled in the East in the years 1610-1611, starting out from France. He sailed from Venice to the Ionian Islands, the southern Peloponnese, Chios, Lesbos, and the Straits of the Dardanelles from where he reached Constantinople. From there he sailed to Egypt, and visited Mount Sinai and the Holy Land. On his return trip, he put in at Cyprus, Sicily, Naples and Rome. Sandy's chronicle is the first detailed and polished travel account, with well-documented information from ancient sources cited in marginal notes. As such, it marks the transition from travel literature of the sixteenth century to that of the seventeenth. It is also representative of those travel narratives that oscillate between geography, history and autobiographical travelogue of fluid and contradictory character. Sandys strives to transmit original and unique geographical and anthropological knowledge, while at the same time increasingly expressing his own opinions and interpretations of what he sees. This publication, enriched with in-text copperplate engravings with original subjects, made an essential contribution to geographical and ethnographical knowledge in its time. It was translated into German and Flemish, and ran through nine editions in the seventeenth century alone. Besides passages from the Holy Scripture (1621-1626), Sandys translated and annotated Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The publication of the latter work in 1632, with citations from philosophers and commentaries by ancient authors, alongside his translation of the first book of Virgil's "Aeneid", established Sandys as an authority in literary circles of his era.". Seller Inventory # 10305
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