A Collection of curious travels & voyages : In two tomes. : The first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the eastern countries
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Type of record: Book
Title: A Collection of curious travels & voyages : In two tomes. : The first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's Itinerary into the eastern countries
Other titles: Stirpium orientalium rariorum catalogi tres; Ray's Travels; Itinerary into the eastern countries; Three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant
Classmark: BC Trv/RAY
Additional creator(s): Ray, John (1627-1705) (Other); Belon, Pierre (1517?-1564) (Other); Staphorst, Nicholas (Other); Rauwolf, Leonard (1540-1596) (Other)
Related people: Ray, John; Belon, Pierre; Staphorst, Nicholas; Rauwolf, Leonard
Publisher: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1693
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280736
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001247859705181
Description
First edition.
Text of main work in English, the first vol. being a translation of Leonhard Rauwolf's 'Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer'; Ray's catalogues in Latin.
Vol. 1: [30], 240, 257-396; v. 2: [4], 186 [i.e. 184], 45, [3] p.
"Stirpium orientalium. Rariorum catalogi tres": v. 2, 45 p. at end.
Remainder of title: "To which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant. By John Ray,..."
Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 56-57 omitted; p. 59 misnumbered 52.
Although tome 2 has separate pagination, it is not a true second volume. In place of a regular title-page it has a half-title (sig.Cc8) reading: "A collection of curious travels...The second tome".
Publishers' advertisement: [3] p. at end.
Indexed in: Wing R385.
Indexed in: Keynes 92.
Additional description
Wanting half-title to tome 1. Formerly with bookplate of the earls of Derby (discarded by the binder or covered by new paste-down)
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