Thevenot, Jean

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 3 parts in one volume, folio (320 x 192mm.), engraved portrait and 3 plates, contemporary calf, lacks divisional title to part 2, somewhat spotted and soiled, binding rebacked

Atabey 1217; Blackmer 1650 (first edition): Weber II, 314; Wilson p.226

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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"Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant" (Blackmer). He visited Damascus, Aleppo and Mosul, and sailed down the Tigris to Bagdad. He then went to Persia and spent five months at Ispahan and visited Shiraz before setting sail for India, where he landed at Diu. He was the first European to describe the temples of Ellora. He died in Persia on his way back to Europe at the age of thirty-four.