A Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages in Two Tomes ... by John Ray by Ray, John, 1627-1705 - 1693

London: Printed for S. Smith & B. Walford..., 1693. Hard Cover. Two volumes bound as one: [30], 396, [6], 3-186, 45 pages; 19 cm. Stirpium orientalium: Rariorum catalogi tres, 45 p. at end of work. Title continues: The first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's itinerary into the eastern countries, as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petra, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. from the observations of Mons. Belon, Mr. Vernon, Dr. Spon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Huntington, Mr. Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot's Collections, and others. To which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant. Wing R385; Hunt I: 390. Rauwolf, Leonhard, ca. 1540-1596. Seer aanmerkelyke reysen na en door Syrien 't Joodsche Land, Arabien, Mesopotamien, Babylonien, Assyrien, Armenien, &c. in t Jaar 1573 en vervolgens gedaan. Some paper browned. Bound in full leather by Hope bindery, Jim DiMarcantonio. Staphorst, Nicolaus, 1679-1731; Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564. Stock#OB465.