ID 794441
Lot 187 | CARTWRIGHT, John (17th-century).
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
The Preachers Travels. Wherein is set downe a true Journall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. London: William Stansby for Thomas Thorppe, 1611.
First edition of John Cartwright’s description of his travels in the Near East and Arabia. He was the first Englishman to have visited and recorded all four keys sites of antiquity in the Near East: Babylon, Nineveh, Persopolis and Susa, and the earliest English traveller certainly to have visited Armenia. Cartwright left England in 1600, and travelled to Aleppo via Sicily, Zante (Xakinthos) and Crete, giving a fascinating account of his journey from Aleppo to Kashan via Armenia; the description of Armenia is most detailed and valuable. His return saw him ‘setting forwards to the great Citie of Hispaan (Ispahan), three daies travell distant from Cassan’. His journey home includes, pp.67-71, part of G. Manwaring's True discourse of Sir Anthony Sherley's travels into Persia, a description of Sherley’s audience with the Shah. He then describes in detail Persopolis, Susa, The ‘Island of Eden’, the City of Bagdad, before his return to Aleppo. ‘The account of his journeys is one of the most valuable of the period’ (Howgego, Exploration, p.197). ESTC S107677; Cox vol. 1, page 205-6: ‘This is one of the most interesting and valuable accounts of old English travels in the East we possess.’
Quarto (186 x 145mm). Title within typographical border, woodcut initials and headpieces (small repair in upper blank margin of F3). Modern speckled calf antique.
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Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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Auction house category: | Printed books |
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