Legrenzi (Angelo). Il pellegrino nell'Asia ... con li ragguagli dello stato della santa citta di Gierusalemme, Bethelemme, Nazareth, ed altri luoghi santi, et citta maritima [volume 2: con li ragguagli dello stato dell'imperio Ottomano, del re di Persia, de Mogori, e gentili loro legge, vita e costumi], 1st edition, Venice: for Domenico Valvasense, 1705, 2 volumes in 1, engraved frontispiece, a few woodcut or typographic illustrations in text, woodcut tailpieces, intermittent faint tide-mark in gutter, loss to a few lower outer corners not affecting text, volume 1 p. 183 imperfectly printed through creasing of paper but all text present, volume 2 leaf G12 partially failed to print verso and with small chip to fore edge affecting text, contemporary vellum-backed carta rustica, manuscript spine-title, 12mo (14.8 x 7.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Not in Atabey, Blackmer or Cobham-Jeffery. Legrenzi (1643-1708), Venetian physician and surgeon, set out for Aleppo after the end of the Cretan War (1645-1669) and spent over 20 years travelling through the Middle East and India. The first volume relates his peregrinations across the Holy Land, including visits to Antioch, Tripoli, Acre, Mount Carmel, Bethany, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and elsewhere; Cyprus is described at pages 17-21. The second volume concerns his subsequent travels through Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and India. It includes descriptions of the cities of Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbekir, Tikrit, Baghdad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, Surat, Aurangabad, Agra and Delhi; pages 184-191 describe at length the sea route to India via the Persian Gulf ('Della navigatione all'Indie per il seno Persico'). His account has been compared to the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle (1650-63), but is much rarer, and was never reprinted. OCLC traces ten copies in libraries world-wide, of which none in the United Kingdom; no other copy traced in auction records.
Legrenzi (Angelo). Il pellegrino nell'Asia ... con li ragguagli dello stato della santa citta di Gierusalemme, Bethelemme, Nazareth, ed altri luoghi santi, et citta maritima [volume 2: con li ragguagli dello stato dell'imperio Ottomano, del re di Persia, de Mogori, e gentili loro legge, vita e costumi], 1st edition, Venice: for Domenico Valvasense, 1705, 2 volumes in 1, engraved frontispiece, a few woodcut or typographic illustrations in text, woodcut tailpieces, intermittent faint tide-mark in gutter, loss to a few lower outer corners not affecting text, volume 1 p. 183 imperfectly printed through creasing of paper but all text present, volume 2 leaf G12 partially failed to print verso and with small chip to fore edge affecting text, contemporary vellum-backed carta rustica, manuscript spine-title, 12mo (14.8 x 7.8 cm) (Qty: 1) Not in Atabey, Blackmer or Cobham-Jeffery. Legrenzi (1643-1708), Venetian physician and surgeon, set out for Aleppo after the end of the Cretan War (1645-1669) and spent over 20 years travelling through the Middle East and India. The first volume relates his peregrinations across the Holy Land, including visits to Antioch, Tripoli, Acre, Mount Carmel, Bethany, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and elsewhere; Cyprus is described at pages 17-21. The second volume concerns his subsequent travels through Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and India. It includes descriptions of the cities of Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbekir, Tikrit, Baghdad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Bandar Abbas, Surat, Aurangabad, Agra and Delhi; pages 184-191 describe at length the sea route to India via the Persian Gulf ('Della navigatione all'Indie per il seno Persico'). His account has been compared to the Viaggi of Pietro della Valle (1650-63), but is much rarer, and was never reprinted. OCLC traces ten copies in libraries world-wide, of which none in the United Kingdom; no other copy traced in auction records.
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