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Princes Arms, St Paul's Churchyard, London: S. Smith & B. Walford, 1693. First edition. Two volumes in One. Octavo, imprimatur leaf, title page, dedication page, pp 26, 396; (ii), half-title to second volume, 186; 45, + bookseller's catalogue 3 pages (the last page torn and repaired without loss. Fairly heavy browning and foxing on some pages throughout, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, rebacked at some time with a new calf spine, raised bands, en extract from a bookseller's catalogue for this copy attached with sellotape to the rear endpaper. The front endpaper contains the armorial bookplate of Sir Edward William Watkin {1819-1901}, Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur; also with the signature of W. Fletcher, Grappenhall Cheshire.]. [John Ray was the compiler of these important travels. It is the first English translation of the Rauwolf, who was a German physician, botanist, and traveller. His main notability arises from a trip he made through… Read More

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. 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. The Second Edition. London : Publish'd by Mr. John Ray, Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1705. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary panelled calf (a few scratches), spine in compartments with old manuscript title piece (leather frayed at head), front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Osbert Salvin (1835-1898), British naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist, and Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), British lepidopterist,… Read More