Thomas Shaw. Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant.

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Printed at the Theatre

Oxford

1757

Second edition. English interspersed with Hebrew. 39 copper engraved plates including illustrations, views and maps of which 11 are fold-out, and includes illustrations of flowers, fossils, mummies, numismatics, bones and 1 page of sheet music. On p. 325, “Rabbinical” map of the Holy Land with locations in Hebrew and English, based upon the map of R. Elia Mizrachi in his Commentary to the Pentateuch; elaborately engraved detailed fold-out of Bible zoology and botany facing p. 423.

cf. Blackmer Catalogue 307; Röhricht 1352; Tobler p. 123.

A wide-margined, uncut copy. Thomas Shaw traveled to Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus and around North Africa. The present work of his is most valuable for its accurate descriptions of antiquities, geography and natural history specimens observed. As Lowndes notes: “These travels have been universally esteemed, not only for their accuracy and fidelity, but on account of the illustrations they contain of natural history, of the classic authors, and especially of the Scriptures