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Lot. 8183
Starting Price: 200 €
[SELLER Abednego], “The Antiquities of Palmyra. Containing the history of the city, and its emperors, from its foundation to the present time…”, S. Smith and B. Walford, London, 1696. FIRST EDITION. Complete including an engraved double-page numismatic plate, engraved folding view of Palmyra, errata leaf. Major restorations of both of the plates. 8vo, pp.[46], 382, [2]. Contemporary full-leather, major rubbing and wear along edges, corners, joints partly cracked but still firm. According to Blackmer, “this work contains one of the earliest descriptions of Palmyra, which was located by a group of merchants in 1691”. Blackmer 1523.
Lot. 8184
Starting Price: 500 €
TOURNEFORT Joseph Pitton de, “Relation d’un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy, 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”, Lyon, Anisson ey Posuel, 1717. FIRST EDITION, in 2 volumes. 8vo, pp.[20], 379, + [4], 448. With 91 in total (of 152) full page engraved plates (Vol.I: 51 plates & Vol.II: 40 plates) depicting landscape & town views, costumes, antiquities, plants. Pitton de Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in 1700. His work is considered as one of the most important accounts of travels in the East. Contemporary ununiformed binding: full leather, spine decorated in gilt, second volume rebacked & restored, external wear & rubbing, Fine condition inside. 40
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