The Travels of Pietro Della Valle in India. From the Old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1892. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Modern blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 2pp, 3pp, iv, lvi, 192pp; xii, pp. 193-454pp, (2pp), 16pp ads. Illustration, floor plans, 2 foldout maps. Overall very good. Text block lightly age toned; first of two foldouts a bit rough, with neat archival reinforcement of delicate folds. Item #43193
A tight and nice first of this edition, being numbers 84 and 85 in the first series. Inoffensive ex-library (Wisconsin State Historical Society), with very few markings and none on the books' spines. Della Valle (1586-1652) was an Italian nobleman, a composer and musicologist who traveled widely and authored a number of accounts of his exotic travels.
Price: $275.00