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‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’
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The record is made up of 1 volume (378 pages). It was created in 1683. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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The TRANSLATOR to the READER.
Ingenuous Reader ,
IS T O R Y, which is the Light and
Memory , hath two Eics, viz, Chronology and Topo
graphy : That, giving Evidence of Things and Ani
ons as to the Time, This, as to the Place. "Among
<< ^^ or, * es ^aith an incomparable Dcilor) Itineraries
"have the preheminence, in which we have the
"moft memorable Things and Events faithfully related
"(as he phrafes it) or, from Eie-wittnefs: The Utility and Certainty
whereof may be mefured from the Reputation and Confcicncc of the
Relater.
AND thefe, as they are more delegable to read, becaufecverin-
terfperfed with Aftions as well as Things, fo they are more to be valued
in icfpcft of their Credit. Thucj elides that mod excellent Hiftorian was
highly accounted of by 'Dionjius Ha , , , and
others famous in the World ; but abov all by the noble
Orator of Athens , who to make his works the more familiar to him-
/elf, is affirm'd by Lucian to have copied them times over: andail
this for his Faithfullnefs and Credit, being himfelf a chief Captain in
the ? depone fan ^ Warrs, and an Eie-wittnefe from the Beginning to the'
End. Even fo is Straho jurtly preferred before
and other Geographers, for that he is faid to have written about no Place
but what himf,clf had feen , as partly may be gathered out of thofe
words of 'Blancan* Strabo eruditifime ,
tem peragraVerat,, defcnpfit. And what a veneration lias the World for
that of 'Benjamin , the famous lGeographer ? not onely for
his elegant manner of describing Things memorable and worthy of
Remark (in which, faith Keander , he was fecorid to none) but that
^ 3 > lie
* Blancstt^ CliroipoLMathoii,

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The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships , authored by Jan Janszoon Stroys, and translated from the Dutch by John Morrison. The volume also contains two narratives written by Captain David Butler, relating to the ‘taking in of Astrachan by the Cosacs’, and is illustrated with plates ‘first designed and taken from the Life by the Author himself.’

Publication details: Printed for Samuel Smith at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard, London, 1683.

Physical description: 24 unnumbered pages, including preface and contents; 378 pages; 21 plates (20 folded); 1 map; Quarto.

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1 volume (378 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings, a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter, and page references. There is also a list of illustrations (plates) giving titles and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume. Note the following misprinted page numbers: 26 instead of 62; 75 instead of 87; 134 instead of 132; 135 instead of 133; 136 instead of 134; 137 instead of 139; 124 instead of 142; 175 instead of 157; 109 instead of 209; 119 instead of 219; 212 instead of 220; 213 instead of 223.

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‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎5] (16/470), British Library: Printed Collections, 1600/630., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/mirador/81055/vdc_100023695183.0x000011> [accessed 24 June 2026]

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‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:28, 1:26, 26a:26b, 27:46, 46a:46b, 47:90, 90a:90b, 91:92, 92a:92b, 93:110, 110a:110b, 111:176, 176a:176b, 177:186, 186a:186b, 187:198, 198a:198b, 199:204, 204a:204b, 205:214, 214a:214b, 215:238, 238a:238b, 239:260, 260a:260b, 261:270, 270a:270b, 271:314, 314a:314b, 315:332, 332a:332b, 333:334, 334a:334b, 335:338, 338a:338b, 339:350, 350a:350b, 351:372, 372a:372b, 373:388, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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Struys, Jan Janszoon
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