Middle East.-Sandys (George) Sandys Travailes: Containing a History of the Originall and present State of the Turkish Empire, engraved additional pictorial title, 2 folding plates and illustrations, expert repairs to tears on pp.7-8 and pp.109-110, very faint water-staining to margins of pp.146-200, Printed by Richard Cotes, to be sold by John Sweeting, 1652 bound with Herbert (Sir Thomas) A Relation of Some Years Travaile Begunne Anno 1626 Into Afrique and the greater Asia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title and illustrations, lacking pp.171-4, the odd spot, Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary mottled calf, gilt-ruled with floral corner motif, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco spine label, rubbed, spine gilding faded, folio.*** Two of the seventeenth century's most important and widely read texts on travel to Europe, North Africa and Asia. Recording his mission to the Shah of Persia in 1626-29, the illustrations depict Persian monarchs, native inhabitants, maps, "exotic" flora and fauna (including the Dodo bird), fantastic sea creatures, and a chapter on 'that Continent now call'd America' - as well as a Persian-English language glossary. Provenance: armorial bookplate of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750-1842), a British peer and MP, whose violent attacks on the policies of Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox led to hsi satirisation in the Rolliad.