Author: PITTON DE TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH:
Title: Utdrag af Tourneforts rese-beskrifning öfwer Levanten: Innehållande det som egenteligen rörer turkiske kejsaredömets regerings-sätt; gudtjenst, seder och hushållning m.m. Stockholm, Henrik Fougt, 1772.
Description: . Pp. (ii), 152. Contemporary half calf on marbled paper covered boards. Scarce Swedish abridgement of Tournefort's travel account first published in Paris in 1717. Pitton de Tournefort, a French renowned botanist was sent in 1700 on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV. Translated into Swedish by Johan Fredrik Grundel. Cf Atabey 959. Cf Blackmer 1318. BOUND WITH: MARITI, GIOVANNI: Resa uti Syrien, Palästina och på Cypern. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1790. Pp. (viii), 128, 139-218, 209-286, (15). Pagination irregular but text is complete. A Swedish abridgment of Mariti's "Viaggi per l'isoal di Cipro e per la Soria ..." Lucca 1769-76. Includes at end the important account on Cyprus. Cf Atabey 769-71. Cf Blackmer 1079. AND: MÜNTER, FREDERIK CHRISTIAN CARL HIINRICH: Utdrag af resa genom Neapel, åren 1785 och 1786, samt beskrifning af det, år 1783, genom jordbäfning förstörda Calabrien och Messina. Upsala, J.F. Edman, 1794. pp. (iv), 140. A Swedish abridgment about the Danish professor Münter's journey to Italy. Translated by Samuel Ödmann.

Keywords: Near East, levant, turkey, turkish, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, greece, greek, persia, persian


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