‎SANDYS (George). ‎
‎A Relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Foure Books. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote parts of Italy, and Ilands adjoyning. The 6th Edition. ‎

‎London, Philip Chetwin, 1670. Petit in-folio de [4] ff., 240 pp. Veau blond, dos à nerfs orné, p. de titre en veau rouge (reliure de l'époque). Manques aux coiffes, mors fendus, qqs frottés et épidermures. L'illustration se compose d'un frontispice, d'une carte générale dépliante, une vue dépliante de Constantinople et 47 illustrations dans le texte. "Sandys travelled to the Levant in 1610, spending a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. His observations first appeared in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. Sandys was also interested in colonial promotion and was one of the undertakers of the third charter of the Virginia company in 1611." (Blackmer 297.) Frontispice uniformément bruni.‎

Reference : PHO-756

‎Après des études à Oxford ,Sandys commence un long périple en 1610. Il visite la France en premier, puis il passe par le Nord de l'Italie. De Venise, il va à Constantinople, puis en Égypte, au Mont Sinaï, en Palestine, à Chypre, en Sicile, à Naples et à Rome. En 1615, il publie en quatre volumes le récit de ses voyages dans The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books. L'ouvrage est régulièrement cité comme une bonne description de la Méditerranée orientale et est réédité plusieurs fois jusqu’en 1673. On his travels through Europe and the Middle East, he first visited France; from north Italy he passed by way of Venice to Constantinople, and thence to Egypt, Mount Sinai, Palestine, Cyprus, Sicily, Naples, and Rome. His narrative, dedicated, like all his other works, to Charles (either as prince or king), was published in 1615, and formed a substantial contribution to geography and ethnology. Sandys' travel narrative appeared as The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books.[4] This remained a standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean .P1-4B‎