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Importante e rara obra sobre viagem à Pérsia e Açores. 1638.

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HERBERT (Thomas).
SOME YEARES [sic] Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the History of these later Times. As also, many rich and spatious Kingdomes in the Orientall India, and other parts of Asia; Together with the adjacent Iles. Severally Relating the Religion, Language, Qualities, Customes, Habit, Descent, Fashions, and Other Observations touching them. With a revivall of the first Discoverer of America. Revised and Enlarged by the Author..
London: Printed bt R. Bi.p for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, 1638.
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Encadernação em carneira da época. Restauros, a amarração está cansada, a coluna está perdendo o suporte. foxing, papel amarelado. Os fólios R3, R4 e S1 possuem pequeno defeito, afetando levemente o texto, perda de margem superior no fólio M4 afetando levemente o texto também.
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SEGUNDA EDIÇÃO.
Relato importante da Índia e parte da África.
Importante descrição da Índia e partes de África, incluindo a primeira descrição da primeira embaixada a Sha Abbas, na Pérsia, no início do século XVI.
Esta edição é ilustrada com 45 águas-fortes no texto compreendendo 5 mapas, 15 vistas, incluindo ilhas portuguesas dos Açores (Pico, Faial, São Jorge, Graciosa e Flores) e 25 águas-fortes retratando o povo, fauna e flora e relatos visuais de animais estranhos ou monstros.

SABIN, 3147

“Thomas Herbert was a historian and courtier to Charles I. In 1626 he attended the diplomatic mission headed by Sir Dodmore Cotton to Persia (now Iran). This mission failed following Cotton's death and Herbert and others travelled throughout Persia, the Middle East and Africa, eventually returning to England in 1630.
In 1634, Herbert published his account of the journey under the title A Description of the Persian monarchy. This was followed by an expanded second edition in 1638. The second edition, renamed Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, was a success and was quickly translated into Dutch and French.
While in Persia, Herbert took notice of cuneiform inscriptions at the Naqsh-e-Rustam necropolis north of Persepolis. These wedge-shaped inscriptions, although they would not be deciphered until the nineteenth century, were correctly identified by Herbert as representing words rather than individual letters.”