Sir Antony Sherley: His Relation of His Travels into Persia. The Dangers, and Distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and unexpected deliverances. His Magnificent Entertainement in Persia,

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his Honourable imployment there-hence, as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome, ... Also, A True Relation of the great Magnificence, Valour, Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and other manifold Vertues of Abas, now King of Persia, with his great Conquests, whereby he hath inlarged his Dominions. ... London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, and Joseph Bagset, 1613. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. full oasis (by F. Bedford) with gilt borders on both covers. Spine extra gilt with raised bands. Inside dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers bearing the armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Hope Edwards. (viii, 140pp.). Some marginal ms annots. With engrv. headpieces, and dec. chapter initials. 1st Edition. A fine copy. NOTE: Leaving Venice in 1599 with his brother Robert Sherley and John Manwaring, Antony Sherley travelled to Persia 'with the intention of promoting Persian trade with England. Travelling by way of Cephalonia (in Greece), Crete and Cyprus, he reached Aleppo in August 1599, then proceeded down the Euphrates to Baghdad and across the mountains to Esfahan. From there, in 1608, Robert Sherley returned to Europe as an envoy of the Shah. Anthony Sherley entered the service of Shah Abbas. and arrived at the Caspian Sea sometime in 1600' - Howgego. Boies Penrose has chronicled the story of these extraordinary Elizabethan brothers in his book, THE SHERLIAN ODYSSEY. Their narratives provided England with its first clear account of the Persian Empire. COX I, p.247. STC 22424. OCLC 5841190. HOWGEGO S95.