Lucas,P.
Voyage du Sieur Paul Lucas, fait en MDCCXIV, &c. Par ordre de Louis XIV, dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Palestine, Haute et Basse Egypte, &c. 2 vols. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwert 1720. with 32 partly folded. Engravings and 2 folded. Engraved maps. 10 fol., 436 p., 4; 1 fol., 345 p., 13 fol. various gilt bindings d. (rubbing). Gay 2122, note Paulitschke 663, note Tobler 122. second edition (EA 1719). - Wanted mainly because of the detailed Egypt part. The plates show Tyros, Damascus, the Pyramid of Cheops, numerous other antiquities, plants and animals, the two maps Asia Minor and the Nile Delta. - Partly slightly spotted.
