Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his travels into Persia. The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome ... also, a trve relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now king of Persia ... with his advice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley / Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley.

  • Sherley, Anthony, Sir, 1565-1635?
Date:
1613
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Credit: Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his travels into Persia. The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome ... also, a trve relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now king of Persia ... with his advice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley / Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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