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

William Lithgow

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  • Sobre la obra de 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.
  • Sobre el artista
    William Lithgow nació alrededor de 1585 en Lanark, Escocia. Era conocido como viajero, autor y presunto espía. Era el hijo mayor de James Lithgow, que provenía de una familia de comerciantes. Antes de 1610 ya había visitado Suiza, Bohemia y Shetland. 1610 fue también el año en que decidió viajar a París y más tarde a Roma, donde permaneció cuatro semanas. Después de esto, visitó otras partes de Italia como Nápoles y Acona y ciudades como Atenas y Constantinopla también, antes de pasar a Palestina, Egipto y Fez. Su último viaje, en el que despegó a España, terminó tristemente cuando se descubrió su identidad como espía. Fue torturado por esto. Lithgow afirmó haber viajado más de 36,000 millas a pie, y su obra literaria más famosa, Aventuras raras y peregrinaciones dolorosas, por lo tanto, consiste en relatos de sus viajes.

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