Levant.- Thévenot (Jean de) The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In Three Parts. viz. Into I. Turkey II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, 3 parts in 1, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, errata leaf, with sheet of 'Malabar Alphabet' and another of 'Malabar Cyphers', portrait and title water-stained (supplied from another copy), part 3 with sheet I4 torn and repaired (presumably intended to be cancelled as text repeated a few pages on and sometimes lacking), small rust-hole to E3 of first part, otherwise clean, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some wormed patches, rebacked, corners repaired, [Atabey 1217; Wing T887; cf. Blackmer 1650 (first edition)], folio, Printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687. ⁂ "Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant." Blackmer
Levant.- Thévenot (Jean de) The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In Three Parts. viz. Into I. Turkey II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, 3 parts in 1, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, errata leaf, with sheet of 'Malabar Alphabet' and another of 'Malabar Cyphers', portrait and title water-stained (supplied from another copy), part 3 with sheet I4 torn and repaired (presumably intended to be cancelled as text repeated a few pages on and sometimes lacking), small rust-hole to E3 of first part, otherwise clean, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some wormed patches, rebacked, corners repaired, [Atabey 1217; Wing T887; cf. Blackmer 1650 (first edition)], folio, Printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687. ⁂ "Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant." Blackmer
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