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The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. Into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Newly done out of French. Licensed, Decemb. 2. 1686. Ro. L'Estrange.
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THEVENOT, Jean de (1633--1667)
[Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant. English. 1687]
The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. Into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Newly done out of French. Licensed, Decemb. 2. 1686. Ro. L'Estrange.
London (Place), printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, booksellers,, 1687.
[34], i, [3], 291, [3], 108, 105--200, [2], 90, 91--93, [1], 91--114, [4] p., frontis. port., [3] pl. : engr. & wdcut illus. ; 31.6 cm. (2º)
The French traveller and natural scientist Thévenot travelled in the Levant and Egypt in 1655--1659. After returning to France where he arranged for publication of the first part of his travels, in 1663 he set off for a second voyage to the Middle East, Persia and India, for a time in the company of the merchant and travel writer Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (q.v.). He died in Iran after an accidental pistol-wound in 1667. Thévenot's Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant first appeared in Paris, 1664--1684, with the second and third parts of his travels being published posthumously from his journals. The preface of the English edition is signed by the translator Archibald Lowell. Each part has a separate, dated, title-page. Running title of parts I and II: Travels into the Levant; part III: Travels into the Indies. Errata on page i of the first part. Pages 44--45 of the first part misnumbered 41--42; page 132 of the first part misnumbered 122. ESTC r17556.
Copy Notes On the front free-endpaper a list of references inscribed in ink, citing exchange rates of different currencies and some page references; some underlining in in the text in red, occasional markings and ciphers. Verso of frontispiece inscribed in ink: 0/16/0. With a scrap of ruled paper inscribed in pencil Du Slier inserted as a bookmark at p. 51. Soane evidently acquired this copy prior to 16 May 1806, when he returned a copy sent on approval by the bookseller Robert Faulder. (Priv. Corr. XVI.F.8).
Binding C17th mottled calf, blind-ruled borders with blind-tooled border nearest spine, gilt-ruled spine, brown morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 373
Additional Names Lovell, Archibald; Faulder, Robert (1747?--1815)
[Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant. English. 1687]
The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. Into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Newly done out of French. Licensed, Decemb. 2. 1686. Ro. L'Estrange.
London (Place), printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, booksellers,, 1687.
[34], i, [3], 291, [3], 108, 105--200, [2], 90, 91--93, [1], 91--114, [4] p., frontis. port., [3] pl. : engr. & wdcut illus. ; 31.6 cm. (2º)
The French traveller and natural scientist Thévenot travelled in the Levant and Egypt in 1655--1659. After returning to France where he arranged for publication of the first part of his travels, in 1663 he set off for a second voyage to the Middle East, Persia and India, for a time in the company of the merchant and travel writer Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (q.v.). He died in Iran after an accidental pistol-wound in 1667. Thévenot's Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant first appeared in Paris, 1664--1684, with the second and third parts of his travels being published posthumously from his journals. The preface of the English edition is signed by the translator Archibald Lowell. Each part has a separate, dated, title-page. Running title of parts I and II: Travels into the Levant; part III: Travels into the Indies. Errata on page i of the first part. Pages 44--45 of the first part misnumbered 41--42; page 132 of the first part misnumbered 122. ESTC r17556.
Copy Notes On the front free-endpaper a list of references inscribed in ink, citing exchange rates of different currencies and some page references; some underlining in in the text in red, occasional markings and ciphers. Verso of frontispiece inscribed in ink: 0/16/0. With a scrap of ruled paper inscribed in pencil Du Slier inserted as a bookmark at p. 51. Soane evidently acquired this copy prior to 16 May 1806, when he returned a copy sent on approval by the bookseller Robert Faulder. (Priv. Corr. XVI.F.8).
Binding C17th mottled calf, blind-ruled borders with blind-tooled border nearest spine, gilt-ruled spine, brown morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 373
Additional Names Lovell, Archibald; Faulder, Robert (1747?--1815)