Some years travels into divers parts of Africa and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times as also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the orientall India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them. The third impression, revised and further enlarged by the author

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  • Some years travels into divers parts of Africa and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times as also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the orientall India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them. The third impression, revised and further enlarged by the author
  • Ruines of Persaepolis.
  • Relation of some yeares travaile
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Imprint
London : printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook, at the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard; and to be sold by William Crook, at the Three Bibles on Fleet-bridge, MDCLXV. [1665]
Added name
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.
Publication year
1665
ESTC No.
R20883
Grub Street ID
85048
Description
[8], 420, [20] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., diagrams, maps, tables ; 2°.
Note
With an additional title page (pi1r) engraved: Some yeares travels into Africa & Asia the great ..

Includes folded plate, engraved and signed: Ruines of Persaepolis ... W. Hollar fecit 1663

Imprimatur on verso of title page: March 17. L662 [sic]. Let this book with the additions of the author be reprinted. Henry Bennet

Includes index

Originally published in 1634 as: A relation of some yeares travaile

A reissue, probably with cancel title page, of the 1664 edition

A variant title page has "The third impression much enlarged, with many additions, nigh a third part more then was in any of the former impressions, besides the addition of many new and lively brass-cuts; all by the author now living."