Voyages And Travels In The Levant; In the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce: Particularly on the Holy Land, and the Natural History of the Scriptures.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 323

HASSELQUIST, FREDRIK.

Voyages And Travels In The Levant; In the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce: Particularly on the Holy Land, and the Natural History of the Scriptures.

<<FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.>> Translated from the Swedish. Engraved folding map. Introduction by Charles Linnaeus. pp. (8), viii, 456. Misaginated, but all complete. Lightly browned, previous owner’s embossed stamp, final blank discolored, new endpapers. Contemporary calf, rubbed and rebacked. 8vo. Rohricht 1435; Soulsby (Linnaeus) 3583.

London: L. Davis and C. Reymers 1766

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

“The first systematic natural history of the Holy Land” (Blackmer 792). Linnaeus describes this work (first issued in the author’s native Swedish in 1757) as being full of fresh, genuine and precise observations: “So admirable a travel journal has never before appeared.”