Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and great Mogull, weaved with the history of these later times. As also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia ; together with the adjacent isles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America Herbert, Thomas Sir 1606-1682 Phillips, Thomas 1760-1851 donor. text text enk London Printed by R. Bip. for I. Blome and R. Bishop 1638 Rev. and enl. by the author. monographic eng

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Rare revised and enlarged second English edition of Herbert's account of his voyage (1627-29) to Persia by way of the Cape, Madagascar and Surat (India). On his way back he visited North America. Herbert begins his account of America (pp. 355-364) with its supposed discovery in 1170 by Madoc, son of Owen Gwyneth, Prince of Wales, and attempts to defend this claim with linguistic and cultural evidence. ''The quaint and curious notes on the travels make the volume one of the most interesting and attractive of the earlier and more primitive accounts'' (South African Bibliography). The illustrations include maps of Madagascar and the southeastern coast of Africa, the Persian empire, India, and Southeast Asia, views of the Persian Gulf, Tenerife, St. Helena, natives of Angola, the Cape, Persia and depictions of a coconut tree, a shark fish, a penguin and a dodo. - Thomas Herbert (1606-82) travelled with Dodmore Cotton, the new English ambassador to Persia (who died before Herbert's return). He first published his account in English in 1634, and it was translated into Dutch (by Lambert van den Bos) in 1658 and into French in 1663. Jonathan Swift attacked its "impertinences, conceitedness, and tedious digressions" and called the author a coxcomb (South African Bibliography). - Some marginal waterstains and soiling. A good copy of this account which is still important for its early eyewitness descriptions, especially of Persia, India and Africa. Headpieces; initials. Author attributes first dicovery of America to Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd, 300 years before Columbus. Main Heritage Shelves General DS7 .H47 1638 Book Item-ID: i2266774x BIB-ID: 1508228 Book plate of T. Scott. (Rev. Thomas). WlLaUW T.-p. signed William Phillips de Bradeley. WlLaUW Presented by Thomas Phillips 1842. WlLaUW a-ir--- a-ii--- n------ s------ Madog ab Owain Gwynedd 1150-1180? Voyages and travels Early works to 1800 Iran Description and travel Early works to 1800 India Description and travel Early works to 1800 America Discovery and exploration Welsh America Discovery and exploration Pre-Columbian Early works to 1800 England London DS7 .H47 1638 05003782 669214711 YWSSC 960913 20130917043400.0 ocn669214711 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng