Lot 164
Middle East.- Sherley (Sir Antony) Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of his Travels into Persia, first edition, for Nathaniell Butter and Joseph Bagset, 1613.
Hammer Price: £3,200
Description
Middle East.- Sherley (Sir Antony) Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of his Travels into Persia, first edition, title with loss to upper corner and paper repair (affecting one letter of text, supplied in ink manuscript), ink manuscript date to A4 and few instances of underlining or passage-marking, K1 tiny rust-hole within text, printed side-notes a few times cropped, few neat repairs, mostly to margins but affecting few letters to Sig. K, ex-library copy with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, later morocco, quite worn, g.e., [STC 22424], small 4to, for Nathaniell Butter and Joseph Bagset, 1613.
⁂ First edition of this important Elizabethan work on Persia. This copy is without the portrait of Sherley, which is seldom found with the book and appears to have been issued separately. Sherley left Venice in 1599 with his brother Robert and John Manwaring, journeying to Persia with the intention of promoting Persian trade with England. He returned to Europe in 1608 as an envoy of the Shah.
Description
Middle East.- Sherley (Sir Antony) Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of his Travels into Persia, first edition, title with loss to upper corner and paper repair (affecting one letter of text, supplied in ink manuscript), ink manuscript date to A4 and few instances of underlining or passage-marking, K1 tiny rust-hole within text, printed side-notes a few times cropped, few neat repairs, mostly to margins but affecting few letters to Sig. K, ex-library copy with bookplate, small ink-stamp to title, later morocco, quite worn, g.e., [STC 22424], small 4to, for Nathaniell Butter and Joseph Bagset, 1613.
⁂ First edition of this important Elizabethan work on Persia. This copy is without the portrait of Sherley, which is seldom found with the book and appears to have been issued separately. Sherley left Venice in 1599 with his brother Robert and John Manwaring, journeying to Persia with the intention of promoting Persian trade with England. He returned to Europe in 1608 as an envoy of the Shah.
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