Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle Ea 1682

William Lithgow

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  Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.
  London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece, 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin.
  
  Third complete edition (the first under the present title) of a classic account of three voyages by the Scotsman William Lithgow (1582-1645?), mostly on foot, from Rome to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt and Malta, continental Europe and North Africa, and through the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula. He gives the earliest clear account of coffee drinking in Europe, describes Turkish baths and long Turkish tobacco pipes, pigeon post between Aleppo and Bagdad and the hatching of chicken eggs by artificial incubation.
  The book went through more than a dozen editions in the course of two centuries. "He ... had a greater knowledge of the interior of the countries he visited than most travellers of this period. He provides interesting details of the society, men, and manners he observed" (Blackmer).
  Some plates bound at wrong position. With an occasional small tear or hole; trimmed, occasionally shaving a running head; and with the frontispiece backed with later paper. A pioneering travel account, including detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East.
  Howgego, to 1800, L134; Wing L2541; cf. Blackmer 1021 (1640 ed.); for Lithgow: DNB XXXIII, p. 361.
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  William Lithgow was born around 1585 at Lanark, Scotland. He was known as a traveler, author and alleged spy. He was the oldest son of James Lithgow, who came from a family of merchants. Prior to 1610 he had already visited Switzerland, Bohemia and Shetland. 1610 was also the year he decided to travel to Paris and later Rome, where he remained for four weeks. After this, he visited other parts of Italy such as Naples and Acona and cities as Athens and Constantinople as well, before moving on to Palestine, Egypt and Fez. His last journey, in which he took off to Spain sadly ended when his identity as a spy was uncovered. He was tortured because of this. Lithgow claimed to have travelled over 36,000 miles on foot, and his most renowned literary work, Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, therefore consists of accounts of his travels.