[Rarebooks] FS: Tournefort's 3 vol. "Voyage Into the Levant" complete w/152 plates & folding map. London: 1741

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(TRAVEL) Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. A VOYAGE INTO THE LEVANT... Containing the Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as Also Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. With Plans of the Principal Town and Places of Note... Illustrated with... Curious Copper-Plates of Great Numbers of Uncommon Plants, Animals, &c... To Which Is Prefix'd the Author's Life... Adorn'd with an Accurate Map of the Author's Travels, Not in the French Edition... In Three Volumes. London: Printed for D. Midwinter et al. 1741. 3 vols. 8vo. L,335;(4),390;(2),364,(42)pp. Index. Illustrated with a large copper engraved folding map plus 152 copper engraved plates (some folding), complete. Cont. calf, elaborately gilt decorated spines, some minor chips, later red morocco spine labels. Outer hinges with hairline cracks but holding nicely, and some areas of the leather darkened.    $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second English edition, the first in 8vo. format.  The French original is 1717. Many sets are found lacking plates. Cox. LITERATURE OF TRAVEL I, P. 221.

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