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Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1554 A.D. [80] SCHILDTBERGER (Hans). Ein wunderbarliche unnd kurtz-, weilige History, wie Schildtberger einer auss der stadt Munchen in Beyern von den ‘Tiircken gefangen, in die heydenschafft gefiiret und wider heimkommen ist, sehr lustig zu lesen. Title printed in red and black, with a woodcut showing the author being led away as a slave by Turks, With 37 very remarkable woodcuts. Small 4to, full levant morocco, inside dentelles, g.e., by Cape. Frankfort, Weygandt Han, (circa 1554). (Sez ItLusrration, Piatt No. XI). £85 Magnificent copy of this famous book of travels. Hans Schildtberger of Munich accompanied the Emperor Sigismond into Hungary to fight against the Turks. In 1396 he was captured by the forces under the Turkish Sultan Bajazet, and sent as a slave into Asia, passing into the possession of Timur or Tamerlane, and various khans and emirs, and travelled throughout Persia, Khorassan, and the most distant parts of Mongolia for a period of twenty-two years, when he escaped and returned home in 1421. Schildtberger’s travels offer a very curious comparison to Marco Polo’s, and form a useful supplement to those of Rubruquis, Jean de Carpin, and others, who, like him, have related the strange manners and customs of the Hast, and especially one Tartar tribes, scattered about from the confines of Cilicia to the borders of China. The beautiful woodcuts, uncommonly well designed, are in the style of Jérg Breu of Augsburg, but are not mentioned either by Muther or by Campbell Dodgson. They illustrate the strange adventures that befell Schildtberger in the most dramatic manner, showing scenes of shipwreck and torture, executions, Turks riding on camels, natives of India gathering pepper, strange monstrous animals, etc. Schildtberger’s tales of adventures, though by no means strictly truthful and full of fabulous reports, contain a great deal of interesting and reliable matter on the manners and customs of the Turks and Saracens at this early period. On the last page the Paternoster is printed in the Armenian and’ Tartar anguages, 1554 A.D. [81] LOPEZ DE CASTANHEDA (Fernan). \Histoire des Indes de Portugal, contenent, comment l’Inde a esté decouverte, par le commande- ment du Roy Emanuel, & la guerre que les capitaines Portugalois ont menée pour la conqueste dicelles. 12mo, full levant morocco, g.eé., by Riviere. Antwerp, Jean Steelsius, 1554. £25](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31664374_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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