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2 volumes, 8vo., [half-title, iv, 428pp.] + [half-title, x, 489pp., 44pp., 120pp.], half-titles and titles printed in red and black, 3 engraved plates (2 folding), 3 woodcut figures. woodcut ornaments. & initials. contemporary calf, professionally rebacked and corner tips skillfully repaired, gilt decorated spines in compartments. A VG+ remarkably fresh and very clean set of this scarce work. John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins". For three years beginning in 1663, the celebrated English botanist and natural historian toured the Continent together with his younger Cambridge contemporary, Francis Willughby, and others, primarily with a view to composing a systematic account of European natural history. They travelled through the Low Countries, Germany, and Italy, France, and Switzerland, with Ray making short visits to Sicily and Malta, and Willughby making a separate excursion to Spain. Included are observations on local customs and antiquities, and a systematic catalogue of European plants (with separate title and pagination, pp. 119, [1], bound at the end of Volume II). The Travels were first published in 1673. The second volume edited by Ray, comprises a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century travels to the Middle East including a very lengthy narrative containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolf's Journey into the Eastern Countries viz., Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, etc., translated by Nicholas Straphorst and revised by Ray, and also Travels into Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, etc., from miscellaneous observations and extracts from Belon, Alpinus, Vernon, Wheeler, and others. Ray had intended to draw attention to the botanical observations contained in the narratives, and compiled the catalogue of oriental plants found at the end (pp. [2], 44). Keynes 22, 22a (incorrectly citing 68 leaves), and 96. Cox I pp. 106-07. Blake p. 372. Blackmer 1397 (1st Edn. of A Collection of Curious Travels, London: 1693). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3694
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