Itinerarium Galliae, ita accomodatum ut ejus ducti mediocri tempori tota Gallia obiri, Anglia & Belgium adiri possint […]. Cum appendice de Burdigala […].

12mo: [20]-340-[21] pp. (missing final blank; cut very short shaving some texts, Geneva map underlaid).

19th-c. gold-tooled calf, covers with gilt border, richly gilt spine with morocco label, gilt sides, dark edges (front cover tanned). Good copy.

Popular travel guide to France, England and the Low Countries, by J. Zinzerling (c. 1590-1620), with an additional part on Bordeaux (1st 1616). Engr. ill.: title by J. van Meurs and 22 folding views of a.o. Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Calais, Geneva, La Rochelle, Leiden, London, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Orléans, Paris, Rotterdam, Rouen, Toulouse, etc. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. STCN. - Not in Chadenat.
Prov. Baptist May (armorial bookpl. with device "Non tergo sed facie"). Baptist May (1629-1698) was Keeper of the Privy Purse to Charles II of England. This bookpl. is likely to belong to a younger Baptist May: a relative, listed as matriculating at Trinity College Cambridge in 1725 and being the son of a Charles (the son, or brother, of the first).