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SANDYS, George

Sandys Voyage ofte een Beschrijvinge vant Heylich-landt vande Iooden en verscheÿden Secten der Christenen aldaer van Ierusalem Het Graff Christi, den Tempel Salomons als meede den notoirens waerdige Antiquiteÿten van Turkyene, Grieken, Egypten en andere V
Amsterdam
Baltes Boeckholt
1665
€360 - €500

4to, 264 pp. Engraved title and 29 fine copper plates (a.o. a view of Jerusalem). Contemporary vellum binding, title in ink on spine

Vertaald uit het Engels door Glazemaker en veel herdrukt, 3e druk. De eerste editie in het Nederlands werd in 1653 in Amsterdam gedrukt. zie: Tiele 959. George Sandys 1577-1643. Dutch translation of A Relation of a Journey by George Sandys (1578-1644), one of the most famous travel books of the seventeenth century. Sandys travelled to the Levant in 1610 and spent a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt before returning to England to become a bishop. Ref. Howgego K26: ""Large numbers of English merchants and ambassadors were present in the Middle East from the 1580s and often wrote accounts of their travels

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