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[[postfree910ae67]] TOURNEFORT / RELATION D'UN VOYAGE DU LEVANT, FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROY. ♦ £2100 Postfree-By-Airmail Worldwide ♦ [
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Each title page continues thus ---- "contenant L'Histoire Ancienne &
Moderne de plusieurs Isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des Cotes
de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de la Georgie, des Frontieres de Perse
& de l'Asie Mineure. AVEC Les Plans des Villes & des Lieux
considerables; Le Genie, les Moeurs, le Commerce & la Religion des
differens Peuples qui les habitent; et l'Explication des Medailles &
des Monumens Antiques. Enrichie de Descriptions & de Figures d'un
grand nombre de Plantes rares, de divers Animaux; Et de plusieurs
Observations touchant l'Histoire Naturelle." OCTAVO SECOND EDITION
Published 1717 in Lyons by Anisson
& Posuel under Royal Licence (Avec Privilege du Roy) --- the first
edition was also published in 1717 but in Quarto in Paris; COMPLETE
THREE-VOLUME SET; the main text in each volume consists of letters to
M. de Pontchartrain, the expedition's sponsor; VOLUME I has 20
unnumbered pages comprising an "Avertissement", an "Eloge de M. de
Tournefort" and the list of "Lettres Contenues dans le Premier Volume"
then 379 numbered pages of main text
(i.e. the text of the letters); VOLUME II has 2 unnumbered pages of
its
list of "Lettres.." then 448 pages of main text;
VOLUME III has 6 unnumbered pages comprising the statements of
"Approbation" & "Privilege du Roy" and its list of "Lettres..", then
404 numbered pages
of main text followed by 59 unnumbered pages of "Table des Materieres
Principales Contenues Dans Les Trois Tomes"[i.e. an analytical index];
of the numerous plates (152 in all) --- which are largely
topographic/ethnographic
or botanic ---
VOLUME I has 45 full-page + 4 fold-out ones,
VOLUME II has 39
full-page + 2 fold-out
and VOLUME III has 61 full-page + 1 fold-out; the plates are taken
from the drawings of Aubriet, the expedition's artist; the plant
types are designated on the plates in interesting pre-Linnean
polynomial fashion; each octavo (13x20cm) volume is bound in stylish
early 20th. century chestnut half-calf with marbled boards, raised
bands, red/gilt title label and black/gilt volume-number label on each
volume, simple gilt striae on raised bands and simple gilt decoration
to head and tail of spine; though bottom outer corner of title-page
of Vol. III somewhat
marked, the whole set otherwise internally crisp/clean and with only
minimal
and very local foxing; though there is some minimal rubbing to
marbling and to bottom and top edges; exterior too very crisp and
clean;
A VERY ATTRACTIVE THREE-VOLUME SET OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK IN THE
HISTORIES OF BOTH GEOGRAPHY & BOTANY OFFERED AT A VERY FAVOURABLE
PRICE INDEED.
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