TOURNEFORT (JOSEPH) PITTON DE

Relation D'Un Voyage Du Levant, Fait Par Ordre Du Roi, Contenant L'Histoire Ancienne & Moderne de Plusieurs Iles de L'Archipel, de Constantinople, Des Cotes de la Mer Noire, de L'Armenie, de la Georgie, Des Frontieres de Perse Et de L'Asie Mineure. Avec Les Plans Des Villes & Des Lieux Considerables, le Genie, Les Moeurs, le Commerce & la Religion Des Differens Peuples Qui Les Habitent; Et L'Explication Des Medailles & Des Monumens Antiques...

Amsterdam, Aux depens de La Compagnie, 1718. Third Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (8" x 9-7/8") volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently rebacked with a new, gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Illustrated with 89 engraved maps and plates (several showing 2 or more subjects), including views, costume, and natural history subjects, as well as more than 40 engravings in the text. The first volume describes the Greek archipelago and the eastern Mediterranean; the second volume covers Asia, the Black Sea, the Caucasus and Persia. The author was one of the great botanists of his time, discovering many new plant species during his travels in the Levant. Extensive, early ink annotations on the front endpapers; first title page with some stains and repairs. Occasional spotting, staining but generally quite clean. Binding nicely restored. Attractive copy The botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was commissioned by Louis XIV to explore the natural history, geography, and trade in the Levant. Accompanied by German botanist Andreas Gundelsheim and artist Claude Aubriet, Tournefort traveled the Crete, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia for two years, from 1700 to 1702.

-- Charles Agvent

Book number: 016248

Catalogue: Exploration

Keywords: Travel Turkey Illustrated Books Natural History

PITTON DE TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH:

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.

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.

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Book number: 99987

Catalogue: Levant

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

TOURNEFORT JOSEPH PITTON DE.

Elémens de botanique, ou méthode pour connoître les plantes. Edition augmentée de tous les supplémens donnés par Antoine de Jussieu ; enrichie d'une concordance avec les classes, les ordres du systême sexuel de Linné, et les familles naturelles créées par Laurent-Antoine de Jussieu ; mise à la portée de tous les hommes par l'interprétation française du texte grec ou latin des espèces admises dans les auteurs, par des additions très-considérables au Dictionnaire des termes du botaniste, etc. par N. JOLYCLERC.

A Lyon, chez Pierre Bernuset, 1797. Six volumes in-8 pleine basane porphyre de l'époque, pièces de titre et de tomaison vertes, dos lisses et ornés d'emblèmes dorés, encadrement de filet et petits fers dorés sur les plats, petits fers dorés sur les coiffes et coupes, tranches jaspées, 489 planches gravées rassemblées dans les cinquième et sixième volumes. (Quelques piques de ver sur les dos et charnières, quelques épidermures, bon état intérieur.) BON EXEMPLAIRE. GOOD. ..(RP12)..

-- Librairie Picard

Book number: 229100

Keywords: LIVRES ANCIENS : Varia LAN40

TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE (1656-1708) M.D. PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND BOTANY AT PARIS

Stipple engraved portrait 11 x 7.6 cm. Buste. Fine.

Paris, Levrault, 1827. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu. Wellcome 2960.5 .

-- Antiquariaat Theo de Boer

Book number: 68993

Keywords: portraits of scientists history of medicine

PITTON DE TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH

A Voyage Into the Levant. Volume I Performed by Command of the Late French King. Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; As Also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia

London, D. Browne, 1718. First edition. HB. 8vo. Volume 1 only disbound 402pp has frontpiece map and 68 plates incl frontispiece. No covers or spine cover, text block itself is firmly bound. frontispiece slightly creased, with minor neat reinforcement to the back of one of the creases and small nicks/closed tears to the outside edge, otherwise plates are good. Some browning to page edges and foxing to the back half of the book. G- .

-- The Victoria Bookshop

Book number: 90004125

Catalogue: Non Fiction