William 1582 1645 lithgow (8 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked with original spine largely preserved. A fine copy with just a small damp-stain to the upper blank margin of the preliminary leaves, minor soiling to leaf 3M1, small spots on pages 139 and 309, small hole on leaf Ee4 costing one word and affecting two others. Lightly inked type at head of page 455. In addition to the woodcut frontispiece, there are woodcuts on pages 52, 124, 285, 287, 368, 374, 417, 455, and 464. First complete edition of William Lithgow's picaresque account of his raucous travels through North Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe (including modern Ukraine), the Mediterranean, and the British Isles in which he claimed to have walked more than 36,000 miles. Lithgow embarked on three international journeys: 1610-1613, 1614-1616, and 1619-1621. He first published his travelogue in 1614, revising it for editions in 1616 and 1623; this is the first edition to include accounts of his second and third journeys. The dramatic woodcuts depict Lithgow being tortured upside-down on the rack, beset by six murderers in Moldavia, and in irons at Málaga. There is also a woodcut view of the city of Fez among other illustrations. Lithgow describes encounters with "barbarous" Turks, surviving shipwreck and torture, and being ambushed by marauding Arabs on his journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. In one harrowing episode in Sicily, Lithgow was nearly captured and enslaved by Moors, but he escaped and led the townspeople in a brief battle that resulted in the capture of the slavers and release of enslaved Sicilians: "I encountered . . . a Moorish Brigantine, with twelve oars on each side, who had secretly stayed there a night and a day stealing the people away labouring on the fields. About twenty Moores broke out upon me, with sabres & slings: But my life and liberty being deare to me, my long traced feete became more nimble . . . for I behoved to fly backe the same way I came. When freed, I hastened to the next Watchtower and there told the Centinell, how a Moorish Brigantine was lying within two miles at an obscure clift: and how hardly I escaped their hands. The Villagers came on horse and foot, and well armed, and the horse-men broke upon them, wounding divers, before they were all taken . . . and six Sicilians relieved whom they had stolen and thralled: Whence they were carried to Syracusa, where, by the way the people blessed me, and thanked God for mine escape, and me for discovering them . . . the governour of that place, for this piece of service, and my travels sake did feast me three dayes, and at my departure would have rewarded me with gold." (Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 333-334) "Lithgow's account makes stimulating reading because of the vigorousness of his English style and the personality of the author himself. His accounts of his travels through the Levant and North Africa provide at times interesting sidelights on social history: he confirms the new fashion in Britain, almost a craze, for consuming currants with everything; he is perhaps the first Briton to describe the by then popular phenomenon of coffee-drinking in the Turkish lands; he confirms the survival of the earlier medieval pigeon post in the Syrian lands and Egypt." (Bosworth 6) "By 1609 Lithgow visited Orkney and Shetland, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, and the Low Countries. He spent ten months in Paris before setting off, in March 1610, on a forty-day walk to Rome. There he inspected the antiquities, violently disapproved of Roman Catholic rites, and was, he claims, harried by the Inquisition. After encountering the 'ignorant devotion' of pilgrims to Loreto (Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 25) he sailed from Ancona to Venice. "At Khania in Crete, Lithgow says, he rescued a French protestant condemned to the Venetian galleys by getting his keeper drunk and smuggling him away disguised as a woman. After other adventures, including shipwreck on Chios, he saw what was then believed to be the remains of Troy and, surviving a beating by four French 'runnagates'". He landed in Constantinople, staying for three months with the ambassador, Sir Thomas Glover, and studied Turkish customs, religion, and society. "Lithgow visited Smyrna, Rhodes, Cyprus, and Aleppo. In the spring of 1612 he left Aleppo with a caravan of Armenians and Turks, travelling via Damascus to Galilee and eventually, on Palm Sunday, Jerusalem. During the journey marauding Arabs had to be fought off or paid off, an ambush was narrowly avoided. Lithgow looked askance at the rites and observances of his Franciscan hosts but was prepared on the whole to take more seriously the sights at the holy sepulchre, where he spent Easter. With a caravan including six German protestants he made the hard desert journey to Cairo in May 1612. He saw the pyramids and sphinx before sailing, by way of Malta, to Sicily. There, he claims, he narrowly escaped capture by Moorish slavers, raised the alarm, and, on the slavers' arrest, was feasted and richly rewarded by local people. He accompanied the earl of Bothwell and Captain George Hepburn to Rome, travelled fairly rapidly to the Alps, was saved from murder near Fréjus partly by his pilgrim's patent, and went to Montpellier, Barcelona, Pau, Bordeaux, and Paris, where ended 'my first, my painefull, and Pedestriall Pilgrimage' (ibid., 298). "Lithgow returned to Britain where he presented to King James a hunting rod which he had cut from a turpentine tree by the River Jordan and to Queen Anne some medicinal white earth from the cave in Bethlehem and a girdle and garters 'all richly wrought in silke and gold' and inscribed 'Sancto Sepulchro, and the word Jerusalem, &c.' (ibid., 247). "Lithgow departed for his second tour in September 1614. At Pistoia he was (allegedly) unjustly arrested and condemned to the galleys by the corrupt Bargello but freed by the governor and given 50 Florentine gold crowns in compensation. But the most famous or infamous (conceivably untrue) incident of. Signed.…

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Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 342 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1863. Text in English. This reprint presents the collected poetical works of William Lithgow, a Scottish traveler active in the 17th century. The volume gathers his verses composed between 1618 and 1660, offering valuable insights into his literary output and the cultural context of his travels. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…

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