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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  • A proposito di opere d'arte
    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.
  • A proposito di opere artista
    William Lithgow nacque intorno al 1585 a Lanark, in Scozia. Era conosciuto come viaggiatore, autore e presunta spia. Era il figlio maggiore di James Lithgow, che proveniva da una famiglia di mercanti. Prima del 1610 aveva già visitato la Svizzera, la Boemia e le Shetland. Il 1610 fu anche l'anno in cui decise di recarsi a Parigi e poi a Roma, dove rimase per quattro settimane. Successivamente, visitò altre parti d'Italia come Napoli e Acona e città come Atene e Costantinopoli, prima di trasferirsi in Palestina, Egitto e Fez. Il suo ultimo viaggio, in cui è partito per la Spagna, si è purtroppo concluso quando la sua identità di spia è stata scoperta. È stato torturato per questo. Lithgow ha affermato di aver percorso oltre 36.000 miglia a piedi, e la sua opera letteraria più famosa, Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, consiste quindi in resoconti dei suoi viaggi.

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