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Wheler, George.
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- A Journey into Greece... containing I. A voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople... III. A voyage through the lesser Asia... V. An account of Athens... London: Cademan [&c.], 1682, first edition, folio (295 x 182mm.), engraved folding map, 5 plates (one with 3 images), and numerous illustrations in text, modern morocco, text slightly soiled
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de. Relation d'un voyage du Levant... contentant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des côtes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de la Georgie, des frontieres de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure. Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1718, 2 volumes in one, 4to (255 x 204mm.), titles printed in red and black, 87 (of 89) engraved plates and maps, a few folding, 46 engraved illustrations in text, contemporary calf, lacking 2 plates in vol.1 (p.73 Grotte d'Antiparos; p.182 Grecques de Constantinople), tear in blank margin of plate at p.29 vol.1, p.68 vol.1 torn at foot with loss of a few letters of footnote, title slightly soiled, binding worn
Thévenot, Jean de. Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant dans laquelle il est curieusement traité des estats sujets au Grand Seigneur... et des singularitez particulieres de l'Archipel, Constantinople, Terre Sainte, Egypte... deserts d'Arabie, la Meque... Paris: Louis Bilaine, 1663 (changed to 1664 in ink), first edition, 4to (233 x 172mm.), engraved portrait, contemporary calf, lacking last leaf of index, somewhat spotted and soiled, some later manuscript notes in margins, binding worn
Covel, J. Some Account of the present Greek Church. Cambridge: Crownfield, 1722, first edition, wide margins, folio (395 x 239mm.), half-title, 4 engraved plates and one illustration, contemporary calf, binding rubbed, rebacked retaining part of original spine
Thévenot, Jean de. Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant dans laquelle il est curieusement traité des estats sujets au Grand Seigneur... et des singularitez particulieres de l'Archipel, Constantinople, Terre Sainte, Egypte... deserts d'Arabie, la Meque... Paris: Louis Bilaine, 1663 (changed to 1664 in ink), first edition, 4to (233 x 172mm.), engraved portrait, contemporary calf, lacking last leaf of index, somewhat spotted and soiled, some later manuscript notes in margins, binding worn
Covel, J. Some Account of the present Greek Church. Cambridge: Crownfield, 1722, first edition, wide margins, folio (395 x 239mm.), half-title, 4 engraved plates and one illustration, contemporary calf, binding rubbed, rebacked retaining part of original spine
Literature
Atabey 1786, 960 (first edition of 1717), 1215 (second edition of 1665), -; Blackmer 1328, 1318 (first edition of 1717), 1650, 420