A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages.

RAY (John).

A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages.

In Two Tomes. The First Containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern Countries… Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The Second taking in many Parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c., from the Observations of Mons. Belon, Mr. Vernon, Dr. Spon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Huntingdon, Mr. Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot’s Collections, and others. To Which are added, Three Catalogues of such Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs, as grow in the Levant.

First edition. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, gilt morocco letterpiece to spine. Contents heavily browned and foxed. [xxx], 396, [ii blank]; [i]pp. 186, 45, [iii, publisher’s catalogue] pp. London, S. Smith and B. Walford, 1693.

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RAY (John).

A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages.

Blackmer 1397: “First edition, first issue with the three pages of adverts dated 1693. A second edition appeared in 2 vols. in 1738… Ray, the great botanist and natural historian, was the editor of this work. At the request of Hans Sloane he revised Staphorst’s translation of Rauwolff which appears here in English for the first time. He made selections from the works of the other travellers and produced the catalogue of the plants of the Levant, Stirpium Orientalium Catalogus. Rauwolff was a German botanist whose account of his travels first appeared in 1582. The selections from Belon, the famous French botanist, appear to be original translations by Ray, as well as the selections from the Italian botanist Alpinus.”

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