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[VOYAGES]. PITTON de TOURNEFORT Joseph (1656-1708)
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[VOYAGES]. PITTON de TOURNEFORT Joseph (1656-1708)
A Voyage into the Levant: Perform'd by Command of the Late French
King. Containing The Ancient 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, Browne, Bell, Darby, etc., 1718.
2 volumes in-4 (260 x 205 mm), 2 bl. ff.-xlii-402 pp. (I)| 2 bl. ff.-[A3]
-398 pp.-[9] ff. Table-2 bl. ff. (II)| in English. full calf, spine ribbed with gold titling and tomé, decorated at head and tail with an embossed frieze, marbled paper endpapers (later bindings).
First edition of the English translation of the Relation d'un voyage du Levant fait par ordre du Roi contenant l'histoire ancienne et moderne de plusieurs isles de l'archipel, de Constantinople, des Côtes de la Mer
Noire, de l'Arménie, de la Géorgie, des frontières de Perse et de l'Asie
Mineure, published in Paris in 1717
Important account of the voyage made in 1700-1702 under the orders of Louis XIV, which led the botanist Tournefort to all the islands of the Greek archipelago, to Constantinople, to the southern shore of the Black Sea, to
Armenia, to Mount Ararat, to Smyrna, etc.
Edition illustrated with 153 engraved hors-texte plates representing views of cities, maps, antiquities, costumes, and mainly plants.
Good condition (despite lightly browned pages, two slight tears without affectation, some foxing| slight rubbing to bindings).
Attached: LACROIX Louis, Iles de la Grèce. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1853. In-8 (224 x 147 mm). Stamped half-basin on wood, spine titled and decorated with gilt fleurons (later binding).
A Voyage into the Levant: Perform'd by Command of the Late French
King. Containing The Ancient 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, Browne, Bell, Darby, etc., 1718.
2 volumes in-4 (260 x 205 mm), 2 bl. ff.-xlii-402 pp. (I)| 2 bl. ff.-[A3]
-398 pp.-[9] ff. Table-2 bl. ff. (II)| in English. full calf, spine ribbed with gold titling and tomé, decorated at head and tail with an embossed frieze, marbled paper endpapers (later bindings).
First edition of the English translation of the Relation d'un voyage du Levant fait par ordre du Roi contenant l'histoire ancienne et moderne de plusieurs isles de l'archipel, de Constantinople, des Côtes de la Mer
Noire, de l'Arménie, de la Géorgie, des frontières de Perse et de l'Asie
Mineure, published in Paris in 1717
Important account of the voyage made in 1700-1702 under the orders of Louis XIV, which led the botanist Tournefort to all the islands of the Greek archipelago, to Constantinople, to the southern shore of the Black Sea, to
Armenia, to Mount Ararat, to Smyrna, etc.
Edition illustrated with 153 engraved hors-texte plates representing views of cities, maps, antiquities, costumes, and mainly plants.
Good condition (despite lightly browned pages, two slight tears without affectation, some foxing| slight rubbing to bindings).
Attached: LACROIX Louis, Iles de la Grèce. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1853. In-8 (224 x 147 mm). Stamped half-basin on wood, spine titled and decorated with gilt fleurons (later binding).