Live veiling - Lot 658
[Middle East]
Voyage du Levant. Troisième édition reveue, & augmentée.
Brussels, H. Anthoon Velpius, 1662
€ 150 / 200
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Beschrijving lot
8vo: [engr. title-16]-805 [= 508]-[2] pp. (without author's portrait, some min. staining).
Contemp. overl. vellum (sl. used), spine with 3 raised bands. Good copy.
Rare third ed. (1st 1643) of this travel account to Turkey begun in 1630-1633 in Bruges, the home town of V. Stochove (1605-1679). With descriptions of Constantinople and the Middle East: Aleppo, Babylon, Jerusalem, Palestine, Egypt and Syria. Ill. with nice engr. title from the 1650 ed., by W. Hollar.
Ref. STCV (1 in Bruges). - Cp. Tiele 1053. - Not in Atabey.