Together with the proceedings and death of the three late Ambassadours: Sir D. C., Sir R. S. and the Persian Nogdi-Beg: As also the two great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogol.
By T.H. Esquier.
(x), 225, (i blank), (xii index), (i printer's colophon), pages, engraved title page (W. Marshall scuplt.), 35 engraved illustrations in the text, full sprinkled calf rebacked and with a dark red title label, a single worn hole in the gutter penetrates many pages but does not affect the printed area, overall a very good tall copy with wide margins.
'In 1627 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, procured his appointment in the suite of Sir Dodmore Cotton, then starting as ambassador for Persia with Sir Robert Shirley. Sailing in March they visited the Cape, Madagascar, Goa and Surat; landing at Gambrun (10 January 1628), they travelled inland to Ashraf and thence to Kazvin, where both Cotton and Shirley died, and whence Herbert made extensive travels in the Persian Hinter land, visiting Kashan, Bagdad, etc. On his return voyage Herbert touched at Ceylon, the Coromandel coast, Mauritius and St Helena. He reached England in 1629, travelled in Europe in 1630–1631, married in 1632 and retired from court in 1634 (his prospects perhaps blighted by Pembroke's death in 1630), after this he resided on his Tintern estate…..'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Herbert,_1st_Baronet)
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