Maggs Bros.

Begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII and finish’d in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia. And other adjacent Countries. With several Publick Transactions reaching near the Present Times; whereto are added The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a Gentleman belonging to the Embassy) from Persia, into the East-Indies. Containing A particular Description of Indosthan, the Mogul’s Empire, the Oriental Ilands, Japan, China, etc. and the Revolutions which happened in those Countries, within these few years.

First English edition. 2 books in 1. 7 folding maps (two of these torn without lost and poorly folded) and 2 portrait plates, frontispiece (frayed at the fore-edge and detached though the five portraits are largely unharmed). Large 4to. Contemporary full calf heavily worn and scuffed, hinges split, armorial bookplate, ink signature on title page, remnant of manuscript paper spine label. [xxiv],424, [iv], 287, [x]pp. London, Thomas Dring & John Starkey, 1662.