Edward Melton (pseud.) Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee- en Landreizen, door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende Gewesten. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1681 FIRST EDITION, 4to (204 x 158mm.), additional engraved title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 19 engraved plates (5 folding), with final leaf containing instructions for the binder, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, extremities slightly rubbed This work was actually compiled from existing travel narratives, claiming to be the work of an English nobleman called Edward Melton, but probably by either Gotfried van Broekhuizen or the publisher, ten Hoorn, who had printed several of the sources for this book (and reused or repurposed some of the plates for this work). The plates depict episodes of piracy, Spanish rapacity and the numerous cruelties supposedly carried out by the Ottomans. LITERATURE: STCN 850456665 PROVENANCE: D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleafCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Edward Melton (pseud.) Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee- en Landreizen, door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende Gewesten. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1681 FIRST EDITION, 4to (204 x 158mm.), additional engraved title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 19 engraved plates (5 folding), with final leaf containing instructions for the binder, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, extremities slightly rubbed This work was actually compiled from existing travel narratives, claiming to be the work of an English nobleman called Edward Melton, but probably by either Gotfried van Broekhuizen or the publisher, ten Hoorn, who had printed several of the sources for this book (and reused or repurposed some of the plates for this work). The plates depict episodes of piracy, Spanish rapacity and the numerous cruelties supposedly carried out by the Ottomans. LITERATURE: STCN 850456665 PROVENANCE: D.L. Cumming, signature on flyleafCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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