1st Edition

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea

    Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continued in First Series 73, with continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1886. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map showing Anthony Jenkinson's route which appeared on p.44 of the first edition of the work.

    Introduction; Supplementary Notes.; The Travel of Anthony Jenkinson; The manner of the entring of Solyman the Great Turke with his armie into Aleppo 1 in Syria , marching toward Persia against the great Sophie, the fourth day of Nouember 1553, noted by Master Anthonie Ienkinson, present at that time. 2

    Biography

    Edward Delmar Morgan, Charles Henry Coote