Sorry ! no shipping to the USA or Russia [the local postal services don't accept shipments to the US-Ukraine+Russia] Subjects : Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, the East Indies, Thailand[Siam], and Japan, - please view full description further down in the ad ! The book is not complete - titlepage of volume 2 is used as titlepage for the whole work - so, there's no title page for vol. 2. the title page for the shipwreck part is misbound to vol. 3 , so there's no title page to the 3rd part . All index/content pages are photographed. contains 26 copper engravings - also all of them photographed . excellent contemporary vellum binding , little foxing ,lightly age-toned, one old repair in margin of 1 page, old red stamp of 'Libraria Colonna' on last page. Postal shipping with recorded delivery only. the books weight is 0.6 kg, On the voyage : The Voyages and Travels of John Struys is a remarkable early modern travel narrative that recounts the extraordinary journeys of Jan Janszoon Struys, a Dutch sailor and adventurer, across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Struys’ narrative is not merely a travelogue but an account of survival, exploration, and cultural observation. His voyages took him through Italy, Greece, Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, the East Indies, and Japan, offering one of the most extensive European travel accounts of the 17th century. Along the way, he endured shipwreck, robbery, slavery, hunger, and torture, making his work as much a tale of personal hardship as it is an ethnographic and geographic record. The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, was published in Amsterdam in 1676. Struys was most likely illiterate and the book was produced with the help of a ghostwriter, but the publishers deemed it more profitable to have Struys on the title page as an author. The book indeed became a bestseller, and is also of worth in assessing events and customs outside Western Europe, including Russia and parts Asia, and gives insight into marketing strategies in the publishing industry of the late 17th century. Background The perillous and most unhappy voyages recounts Struys's travels: to Asia between 1647 and 1651, in the Mediterranean (in Venetian service, fighting the Ottoman Empire) between 1656 and 1657, to the Caspian Sea in Russian service in 1668, and to the East (Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Thailand) in 1672–1673. The book was a bestseller and was translated in various European languages, and made Jan Struys famous. A French version (in three volumes) appeared in Amsterdam in 1681. The book was translated in German a number of times, including in 1678 (by Van Meurs in Amsterdam) and, abridged, in Zurich in 1679, when travel adventures set in Asia were popular among German readers. A translation in English appeared in 1683, at a time when the tourism industry for the wealthy began. Struys's supposed autobiography show glaring omissions: his youth is not described and we meet Struys only at age 17, and no details are provided for the decade he spent in The Netherlands between the second and third voyage. While these omissions, coupled with a lack of consistency in style, might provide evidence for the author's low literacy (as a sailor he wouldn't be expected to be literate, and documentary evidence from marriage records proves his illiteracy), according to historian Kees Boterbloem they actually suggest a specific marketing strategy: an unnamed ghostwriter producing a text based on the adventures of a lower-class, illiterate, but experienced traveler. In 1660, living as a merchant in Moscow, he provided evidence for the popularity at the time of the kaftan among the Russians.