Lot 158
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
A Voyage into the Levant
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
perfom'd by Command of the late French King. Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1718. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to (24.7 x 19cm), mid-20th-century blue half calf, xlii 402, [4] 398 [18] pp., 152 engraved plates, engraved folding map by John Senex, light browning, volume 1 with occasional damp-staining to margins, volume 2 with stronger and more consistent damp-staining to plates and worming in gutter occasionally affecting a few images, folding plate 150 with marginal loss [ESTC T133108; Nissen ZBI 4156]
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)
First published in French the previous year.