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TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant. Amsterdam: aux dpens de La Compagnie, 1718. 2 volumes in one, 4 (255 x 208mm). Titles in red and black. 88 engraved plates, maps and plans (4 folding), numerous engraved illustrations. (Occasional small tears or paper faults, the map of Andros holed with slight loss.) 19th-century half morocco (rubbed).
Third edition by perhaps the greatest botanist of his time. The plates include a significant proportion of botanical plates, as well as other natural history subjects, costume plates and views. Volume I describes the eastern Mediterranean, volume II Persia, the Black Sea, the Caucasus and parts of Asia. Cf. Brunet V.903; Hunt Botanical 444; cf. Nissen ZBI 4154.
Third edition by perhaps the greatest botanist of his time. The plates include a significant proportion of botanical plates, as well as other natural history subjects, costume plates and views. Volume I describes the eastern Mediterranean, volume II Persia, the Black Sea, the Caucasus and parts of Asia. Cf. Brunet V.903; Hunt Botanical 444; cf. Nissen ZBI 4154.