Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, London, 1684

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies. London: Moses Pitt, 1684

Folio (295 x 188mm.), 2 volumes bound in one, 33 full page engraved plates and maps, some folding, additional woodcut illustrations in the text, contemporary panelled calf, a few plates shaved to margins,rebacked, one cover detached, the other becoming so, bindings slightly worn

This comprehensive work describes the travels of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689), the French gem merchant and traveller. He took several journeys, eventually (according to his own account) covering 60,000 leagues over the course of 6 voyages to Persia and India between 1630 and 1668.

This work is divided into 2 volumes and 6 parts, comprising:

i) Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, volume one

ii) The six travels...through Turky and Persia to the Indies, the second part

iii) A new relation of the inner-part of the Grand Seignois Seraglio

iv) Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies, volume two

v) A new relation of the Kingdom of Tunquin

vi) A relation of Japan