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BELON DU MANS, Pierre. Les observations de plusieurs singularitez & choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1554. 3 parts in one volume, 8°, each part with separate title, general title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Belon on verso of i4, numerous woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials (lacking fol. 53 and folding map, small marginal wormhole occasional affecting text or image, lightly browned and soiled), contemporary calf (rebacked, front cover detached, worn), scored inscription on title, a few old underlinings and annotations.
Second edition, "a much more sumptuous production than the first". The work recounts the author's three-year journey through Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Arabia and Egypt. Belon describes the local flora and fauna, mineral resources, customes, dress, antiquities. Blackmer 115; cf. Nissen ZBI 304.
Second edition, "a much more sumptuous production than the first". The work recounts the author's three-year journey through Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Arabia and Egypt. Belon describes the local flora and fauna, mineral resources, customes, dress, antiquities. Blackmer 115; cf. Nissen ZBI 304.