The Itinerary Of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508 As Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A. in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society With A Discourse on Varthema and his Travels in Southern Asia by Sir R
by VARTHEMA, Lodovico Di [c1468-1517]
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London: Argonaut Press, 1928., 1928. 4to. pp. lxxxv, 121, [1 leaf]. with half-title. 4pp. of Argonaut Press ads loosely inserted. 5 full-page maps, 1 full-page plate & 1 full-page facsimile. title vignette. original quarter vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, largely unopened (some spotting to spine, else fine). Limited to 975 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. The pioneering Italian traveller visited Egypt, the Middle East (he was the first European to enter Medina), Arabia, northeast Africa, Persia, India, Ceylon, and the East Indies between 1502 and 1508, although some scholars doubt his claims to have travelled to Burma, South-West China, Malacca, Sumatra and the Moluccas, possibly being the first European to visit the Spice Islands (1505). His Itinerario, first published in 1510, "had an enormous impact at the time, and in some respects determined the course of the European expansion towards the Orient. It is important as the first printed European source of information on lands to the east of India, even if that information did arrive second-hand." (Howgego) This edition is based on John Winter Jones's English translation, first published in 1863 by the Hakluyt Society. Cox I p. 261. National Maritime Museum I 387. Hill p. 306. Howgego V15..
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- The Itinerary Of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508 As Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A. in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society With A Discourse on Varthema and his Travels in Southern Asia by Sir R
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- VARTHEMA, Lodovico Di [c1468-1517]
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- London: Argonaut Press, 1928.
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- 1928
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- ASIA MIDDLE-EAST EGYPT ARABIA AFRICA PERSIA INDIA CEYLON EAST INDIES BURMA CHINA MALACCA SUMATRA MOLUCCAS SPICE ISLANDS
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