Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow

Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle Ea 1682

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  • Sur l'oeuvre d'art
    Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.
    London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece, 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin.

    Third complete edition (the first under the present title) of a classic account of three voyages by the Scotsman William Lithgow (1582-1645?), mostly on foot, from Rome to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt and Malta, continental Europe and North Africa, and through the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula. He gives the earliest clear account of coffee drinking in Europe, describes Turkish baths and long Turkish tobacco pipes, pigeon post between Aleppo and Bagdad and the hatching of chicken eggs by artificial incubation.
    The book went through more than a dozen editions in the course of two centuries. "He ... had a greater knowledge of the interior of the countries he visited than most travellers of this period. He provides interesting details of the society, men, and manners he observed" (Blackmer).
    Some plates bound at wrong position. With an occasional small tear or hole; trimmed, occasionally shaving a running head; and with the frontispiece backed with later paper. A pioneering travel account, including detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East.
    Howgego, to 1800, L134; Wing L2541; cf. Blackmer 1021 (1640 ed.); for Lithgow: DNB XXXIII, p. 361.
  • Sur l'artiste
    William Lithgow est né vers 1585 à Lanark, en Écosse. Il était connu comme voyageur, auteur et espion présumé. Il était le fils aîné de James Lithgow, issu d'une famille de marchands. Avant 1610, il avait déjà visité la Suisse, la Bohème et les Shetland. C'est également en 1610 qu'il décide de se rendre à Paris, puis à Rome, où il reste quatre semaines. Il visite ensuite d'autres régions d'Italie, comme Naples et Acona, ainsi que des villes comme Athènes et Constantinople, avant de se rendre en Palestine, en Égypte et à Fès. Son dernier voyage, au cours duquel il s'est rendu en Espagne, s'est malheureusement terminé lorsque son identité d'espion a été découverte. Il a été torturé pour cette raison. Lithgow prétendait avoir parcouru plus de 36 000 miles à pied, et son œuvre littéraire la plus célèbre, Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, est donc constituée de récits de ses voyages.

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