Thévenot, Jean de (1633-1667).

Estimate

2,000 - 2,500 GBP

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Description

The travels... in the Levant. In three parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Newly done out of French (by Archibald Lovell). London: H. Clark for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes and T. Newborough, 1687

3 parts in one volume, folio (365 x 232mm.), large paper copy, [38], 291, [1 (blank)]; [2], 104, [105]-[108], 105-200; [2], 90, (91)-(93), [1], 91-114, [4]pp., illustration: engraved portrait of the author by W. Faithorne, 3 engraved plates, one engraving in text, extra-illustrated with 42 engraved plates by Jan Luyken loosely inserted, binding: contemporary mottled calf, sides ruled in blind, spine gilt in compartments, short cut in upper margin of I4 (part 3) without loss, occasional light staining, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Wing T887; Atabey 1217; Wilson p.226; cf. Blackmer 1650, Tobler 1658 & Röhricht 1104

Catalogue Note

a large paper, extra-illustrated copy of the first edition in english. As well as an intrepid traveller, Thévenot was also an able linguist, natural scientist and botanist. He began his travels in the Levant in 1655, returning in 1659 to prepare the first part for publication. Then in 1663 he departed once more, travelling through Syria and Persia to India. He died during the return journey, near Tabriz, on 28 November 1667. The first part of his travels, on Greece and Turkey, was first published in 1663-1664; the second and third parts were published posthumously by Pétis de la Croix and the sieur de Luisandre in 1674 and 1684. The first issue of the present edition contains the name of Clark only in the imprint. This is the second issue.

The loosely inserted plates by Jan Luyken were published in the Dutch edition of the work, printed in 1681.