Johannes de Laet. PERSIA SEU REGNI PERSICI STATUS. VARIAQUE ITINERA IN ATQUE PER PERSIAM: CUM ALIQUOT ICONIBUS INCOLARUM. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1647. Second edition (first published in 1633). Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, all edges stained. 24mo; *4 A-Z8 2A4; [8], 362, [14]pp. Roman type; text in Latin. With engraved title page, (8) full-page woodcuts, woodcut head-pieces, ornaments, and initials, and index. Copinger 1340; USTC 1027967.

4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Johannes de Laet (1581-1649) was a Dutch cartographer and businessman who worked as the director of the Dutch West Indies Company. He wrote books about various geographical areas using available published sources.

Edgewear to boards, scuffed especially at spine; cracking at hinges with slight separation from text block, still very sturdy; endpapers with printed text and manuscript; woodcuts with later hand-coloring with color bleeding and offsetting; manuscript initials on title page; pages toned with frequent underlining and occasional foxing.