A collection of curious travels & voyages. In two tomes. The first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the Eastern countries ... Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. ... To which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant / By John Ray.

  • Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Date:
1693
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

London : Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society ..., 1693.

Physical description

3 parts in 1 volume (32 unnumbered pages, 240, 257-396; 4 unnumbered pages, 55, 58-186; 45 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (8vo)

Notes

The first part is a translation of Leonhard Rauwolff's Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raisz so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, Lauingen, 1583. "The Second Tome" (with initial blank leaf and half-title) has extracts from works by Pierre Belon, Francis Vernon, Sir George Wheler, Thomas Smith, John Greaves, Robert Huntington and others. In this issue, the third part, "Stirpium Orientalium. Rariorum Catalogi Tres", has a final 3-page "A Catalogue of Books ... "
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Hollett 26 Note: Imperfect: wanting final leaf. Advertisements as Keynes 92; sig.CC as Keynes 93. Binding: contemp. sprinkled calf

References note

Keynes 92 (&93)
Wing R385
Hunt 390
ESTC R17904
Keynes, G. John Ray, 92, 93, 94
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R385

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