The Pilgrim

This is an abridged English reading of the travel letters Pietro della Valle sent home from a twelve-year journey that began in 1614. Leaving Rome, he describes Constantinople, Egypt, and the Holy Land, then a long stay in Persia, where he marries, and a further voyage to India before the return by sea. He notes courts, ruins, religious communities, and the practical trouble of caravans and ports. The voice is that of a curious nobleman writing to a friend, not a merchant's ledger. The book is a seventeenth-century travel narrative, not a pilgrimage manual.

Bound in dark red and green cloth, divided vertically down the centre of each board. Page tops stained red. Endleaves printed in green with engravings done in 1745 of Pietro and his wife. Dark red slipcase.