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TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (d.1708). Relation d'un voyage du Levant. Lyon: freres Bruyset, 1727. 3 volumes, 8° (190 x 122mm). 152 engraved plates and maps, 6 folding. (Some light spotting, margin of one plate torn away/?paper-fault, 2 of the folding plates repaired.) Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt (but slightly chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Grenut (signatures). -- Sir James BRUCE (1730-1794). Cartes et Figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie. Paris: Plassan, 1792. 4° (260 x 205mm). Engraved title vignette, 88 plates, maps and charts, 19 double-page, 4 folding. (Occasional spotting, a few plates torn at folds.) Old half vellum (scuffed). Provenance: students' library, academie de Lausanne (stamp and inscription on title). -- and seven others (Sir James BRUCE. Travels. 1840. 12°; P.BRYDONE. A Tour through Sicily and Malta. 1790. 2 vols, 1790; G.SANDYS. A Relation of a Journey. 1627. 2°; D.SESTINI. Lettres... écrites... pendant le cours de ses voyages en Italie, en Sicile et en Turquie. (incomplete) 1789. 3 vols, 8°). (11)