Sales catalogue 521: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/77
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 521: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1685 A.D. [553] GODINHO (Manoel). Relagao do novo caminho que fez por terra, e mar, vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663. With engraved coat-of-arms on first page, initial letters. 4to. Bound by Mackenzie in green morocco, gilt, g.e. Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Olivetra, 1665. £15 158. This curious and interesting volume appears to be almost unknown to Biblio- graphers; Brunet mentions this edition as rare and wanting in the best collections of voyages. . The above relation gives a description of the different countries Manoel Godinho travelled through on his journey from India to Portugal, and particularly relates to Persia, its inhabitants, their dress and customs, etc. There are also detailed accounts of certain cities, such as Basra, Surat,, Aleppo, Babylon, and ee Mention is also given of the Moorish Lent and Easter, and the pilgrimage to Mecca. 1685 A.D. [554] LE MAIRE. Les Voyages du Sieur Le Maire aux Isles Canaries, Cap-Verd, Senegal, et Gambie. Sous Monsieur Dancourt, Directeur Général de la Compagnie Roiale d’ Affrique. With folding maps and plates. 12mo, red levant morocco, gilt, g.e. Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1685. {10 Ios. 1685 A.D. [555] DITTO. Another edition. Title printed in red and black. 12mo, vellum. Parts, 1685. £5 5%. Probably a pirated copy of the former edition. The imprint reads: Suivant la Copie chez Jaques Collombat. . 1685 A.D. [556] Distinta Relazione della resa della Citta di Cassovia. 4 pp., small 4to, vellum. | Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1685. fio as, Owing to persecution the Protestants of Hungary rose under Emeric Tekeli and attacked the Imperial forces. They subsequently asked for Turkish help, and the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha joined them, and siege was laid to Vienna. Sobieski, King of Poland, drove them back, and saved Vienna and recaptured various places, finally obliging the Turks to retreat. The Turks, instead of blaming the Grand Vizier, the real cause of their defeat, laid the blame on Tekeli and he was taken a prisoner to Constantinople. This report tells of the recapture of various cities by General Caraffa, and of the incarceration of ‘Tekeli.
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