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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Limited Edition. The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica, by William Lithgow. The half title is headed 'The Rare Adventures of William Lithgow'. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His signature to first pastedown, and some pencil annotations to Preface and at rear. Please see our other listings for related works. Published by James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow University Press, 1906. This is a reprint of the 'editio princeps' of 1632, which was Imprinted in London by Nicholas Oakes. Limited edition of 1,000 copies sold in Great Britain and Ireland. A good red cloth hardback with gilt title to spine. Some bumping, especially to head and tail of spine and a few wear marks to cover. Spine is sun faded. Slight give in the binding, but all still bound. Endpapers and pages at extremities with foxing, then scattered spotting throughout. Foxing to text block edges. With some rough cut edges as issued. An attractive book, with the reprinted 17th Century plates very attractive. xxxi + 448pp + 2pp + Plates. Weight approximately 760g (unpacked). Approx Dimensions: 235mm high x 156mm wide x 40mm deep. More photos on request.

Deluxe issue of one hundred copies in handmade paper; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); signed by publisher to limited edition page, 12 plates including frontispiece; publisher's vellum backed cloth boards, gilt vignette to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, a fine copy; xxxi, 449 pp. The 1906 fine-press reproduction of the first edition of 1632 of Lithgow's The Totall Discourse. This book is probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish Baths, a pigeon post between Aleppo and Baghdad, Turkish tobacco-pipes, artificial incubation, and the importation of currants from Zante to England. Lithgow (1582-1645?), tailor, later traveller, was born in Lanark. This classic account first appeared in 1614 and went through numerous additions being constantly added to as Lithgow made more travels. He visited Italy, the Ionian Islands, Athens, Crete and the Aegean Archipelago in 1609 and stayed for a time on Chios, where he met two French merchants whom he joined to visit Greek monuments and antiquities. Lithgow travelled some 36,000 miles as described in this work. He was imprisoned and tortured in Spain, released at the intervention of James I, and again imprisoned in London for assaulting the Spanish Ambassador.

First collected edition of Lithgow's chief work, "a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places" (DNB). The author "cuts an eccentric figure even in the company of other early-seventeenth-century British travellers" (Speake). William Lithgow (1582-1645?) travelled extensively across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East on three journeys between 1609 and 1629. He claimed to have walked some 58,000 kilometres (almost one and a half times the Earth's circumference). The intrepid Scotsman published his travels in 1614, 1616, and 1623; this expanded edition includes descriptions of his second and third tours. "His adventures include being assailed in Libya, beset in Moldavia, and being arrested and tortured as a spy in Malaga. He bathed in the River Jordan, visited the holy shrines and took home a few souvenirs including 'a pair of Garters of the Holy Grave, all richly wrought in Silk and Gold' for presentation to Queen Anne, wife of James I. Embedded in his euphuistic narrative are the first reports of such novelties as coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, the Aleppo-Baghdad pigeon post, artificial incubation, and Turkish tobacco pipes" (Howgego). "Christian-Muslim themes abound in the book. [including] a short account of the main features of the Islamic faith and a critical though not very original depiction of the life of Muhammad, which incorporates elements familiar from late medieval Christian polemics" (Thomas, pp. 233-4). His stories include enriching himself from the bodies of two barons who mutually killed each other in a duel, capturing a pirate ship, his companions dying of thirst in the desert, and various near-death experiences. Since the only proof for many of his tall tales is his own word, it is clear that he still followed early modern traditions of myth-making in travel writing. The Totall Discourse "is lively and opinionated, as Lithgow mixes astute observations with dogmatic self-righteousness. Despite his views, he obviously made acquaintances on his travels and was able to extract information from useful local sources. His style is often ornate, perhaps as an attempt to compensate for his relatively humble origins with his metropolitan English readership. But Lithgow, at his best, has an eye and ear for the ordinary details that mark out different cultures" (Speake). ESTC S108574; Howgego L134; Speake II, p. 729. C. Edmund Bosworth, An intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-1621, 2017. David Thomas, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 8, 2011. Quarto (190 x 132 mm): A-3V4; 264 leaves. Integral woodcut frontispiece, repeated on S2v, and 7 further illustrations, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, sometime rebacked with original spine laid down, smooth spine with brown morocco label, covers ruled in blind, edges sprinkled red. Illegible signature on front free endpaper dated 1837; bookplate of one George Harwood on front pastedown; old pen underlining on 2Z2; later pencil annotations to rear pastedown. Corners and board edges judiciously repaired, small tidemark to head of preliminary leaves (not touching printed area), minor soiling to 3M1: a very good copy.