A Voyage into the Levant; Perform'd by Command of the Late French King, containing the Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago, as also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor, with plans of the principal Towns and Places of Note; an Account of the Genius, Manners, Trade, and Religion of the respective People inhabiting those Parts: And an Explanation of Variety of Medals and Antique Monuments, illustrated with full Descriptions and Curious Cooper-Plates of great Numbers of Uncommon Plants, Animals, etc. and several Observations in Natural History.

London; D. Browne et al, 1718., 1718. First English Edition. Two volumes. Crown quarto, pp.,[ii] i- xl, 402, xli-xlii, [i] blank; [iv], 398, [xvii] of index. Complete with 152 plates and 1 large gatefold map of the Black Sea and the Levant by John Senex, not present in the French edition. Uniformly bound in contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, very capably re-cased, floral tooling in blind to boards, rolls in gilt to board-edges, ornaments in gilt within compartments to spine, titled in gilt to leather spine-label. Partially scraped gift inscription 'Ex Dono Fratris [...]', contemporary price, and ownership inscription of Sir George Chudleigh, 4th Bt. (d. 1738) dated 1719 to front paste-downs, inscription of Sir Tho[mas] Chudleigh, 5th Bt. (d. 1741), partially obliterated, and H[enry] Fownes Luttrell (1723-1780) dated 1754 and priced 14/s, to title-pages. Corners rubbed with a little loss, slight shelf-wear to edges of boards, light, scattered foxing throughout, small, unobtrusive worming to lower margin of 218-243, faded manicule to 284. A very good copy. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was an influential French botanist and travel writer, credited with inventing the word herbarium. These volumes recount Tourneforts extensive voyages to the near- and middle-east. John Senex was an English cartographer, astrologer and geographer to Queen Anne. Illustrated with a panoply of plates which depict a rich, broad variety of views, plans, plants, animals, antiquities, and aspects of everyday life. ESTC T133108.