Struys: The Travels of Jan Struys Through Moscow, Tartary, Persia, India, and Many Other Places / Les Voyages de Moscovei Tartare Amsterdam [1681] [copperplate engravings]

STRUYS, Jean – THE JOURNEYS from ... to Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, the Indies, & several other foreign countries [ ...]. By Mr. Glanius. Amsterdam 1681. J. van Meurs. 8, frontispiece, [12], 360, [14], 18 plates, 1 map, 1 fold-out [and] Relation du naufrage d’un vaiseau Hollandois nomme ter Schellingh. 8, frontispiece, [4], 80. Bound together in a slightly later half-leather binding with gilding and a small shield, edges stained. Binding slightly scuffed, endpapers cracked on one side; frontispiece, title page, and some pages have filled-in margins; cracks in several plates have been glued—this piece has undergone bookbinder’s restoration; paper stained in places. Bookplate.

The first French translation from the Dutch of a traveler’s account of an expedition to Russia and Persia, containing, among other things, a striking navigational map of the Caspian Sea, “Carte Marine ou est décrite la Mer Caspienne.”Copperplate engravings depicting landscapes, genre scenes, and ships. In Part 2, eight copperplate engravings with genre scenes are included as part of the pagination.