76/3025 [Persia]. Olearius, A. Beschrijvingh Vande Nieuwe Parciaensche ofte Orientaelsche Reyse, welck door gelegentheyt van een Holsteynsche Ambassade, aen den Koningh in Persien gheschiet is. Waer inne De ghelegenheyt der plaetsen en Landen, door welcke de reyse gegaen is, als voornamelijck Ruslant, Tartarien en Persien. (...) Item: een schrijven van den Wel-Edelen, &c. Johan Albrecht van Mandelslo, waer in de Oost-Indische Reys van den selven over den Oceanus verhaelt wort. Dutch transl. D. van Wageninge. Utr., L. Roeck, 1651, 2 parts in 1 vol., (16),924; 66p., engr. frontisp., 6 portraits, 3 (of 4) fold. plates, contemp. overlapping vellum, 12mo.

- Lacks one plate; sl. yellowed and fingersoiled; occas. (vaguely) waterst. Vellum sl. wrinkled and soiled.

= Cox I, p.248; Hill 1257; Henze III, p.638f (listing the first edition published in Schleswig, 1647); Cat. NHSM p.133; cf. Atabey 884; Wing O269. First Dutch edition of a famous travel account written by A. Olearius (Ölschläger) while he accompanied the mission sent by the Duke of Holstein to the King of Persia in 1633-39 as secretary. During his travels Olearius collected much valuable information on Russian customs and tradition.