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.
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
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.
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.”