The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living : through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 : giving an account of the state of those countries : illustrated with divers sculptures : together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor's seraglio, by the same author

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689, Phillips, John, 1631-1706, Littlebury, Robert, Pitt, Moses, active 1654-1696, Starkey, John, 17th cent · 1678 · London : Printed for R[orbert] L[ittlebury] and M[oses] P[itt] and are to be sold by John Starkey ... and Moses Pitt ... · 23 pictures

This 1678 London English edition of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier's travel account of Turkey, Persia and the East Indies was printed for the booksellers Robert Littlebury and Moses Pitt, with a translation by John Phillips, for an English reading public interested in distant trade. Its plates show coins, ingots and currency from Arabia, Persia, Japan and Siam drawn as close, flat engravings with clear outlines, and a town plan with hatched terrain; a designer could draw on their dense ornamental roundels and geometric border motifs.

Voyages and travels

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