Lot 285

Roxburghe Club - Van Linschoten, Jan Huygen





Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£938
Description
Jan Huygen van Linschoten and the moral map of Asia. The plates and text of the Itinerario and Icones, Habitus Gestusque Indorum ac Lusitanorum per Indiam Viventium. London: Roxburghe Club, 1999. Large folio, quarter morocco with vellum corners, portrait and 42 colour plates with additional suite of engraved "Plates of the Icones" in rear pocket
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire




