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.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

HASSELQUIST, FREDRIK.

printer

L. Davis and C. Reymers

Place

London

Publication

1766

Description

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Translated from the Swedish. Engraved folding map. Introduction by Charles Linnaeus.

references

Rohricht 1435; Soulsby (Linnaeus) 3583.

summary

“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.”

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.

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