A voyage into the Levant: . perform'd by command of the late French King. Containing the antient and modern state of the islands of the archipelago; as also of Constantinople, the coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. ... By M. Tournefort ... To which is prefix'd, the author's life, in a letter to M. Begon: ... Adorn'd with an accurate map of the author's travels, not in the French edition: done by Mr. Senex. In two volumes.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708)
Category
Books
Date
1718
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3042462.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1., plates . . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt decorated and (missing) spine label.
Makers and roles
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) Honoré Maria Lauthier John Ozell (d.1743)