"POSSIBLY THE MOST REMARKABLE OF THE ARAB TRAVELERS"
(LEE, Samuel, translator) IBN BATTUTA. The Travels of Ibn Batuta. London, 1829.
Very scarce first edition in English of a substantial portion of Ibn Battuta's remarkable Rihla, the chronicle of his prodigious 14th-century travels through much of the known world of the time, estimated to have covered 75,000 miles in 40 years—"an enlightening picture of the culture of a whole period." This copy printed for subscriber Francis Baring, Esq., with his decorative subscription leaf before the title page. $18,000.
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