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Goeree, Jan

MAUNDRELL, Henry Voyage d'Alep à Jerusalem, à Pâques en l'année 1697. Utrecht W. van Poolsum 1705 12mo: [10]-251-[1 bl.] pp. (some browning & spotting). Contemp. speckled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, gilt sides, marbled edges (sl. rubbed). Good copy. Rare first French translation of "A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697" (posthumously published in Oxford in 1703). Engr. ill.: front. by Jan Goeree and 9 full-page plates (5 larger folding) showing Solomon's Pools, Mount Tabor and Carmel, Baalbek, etc. Maundrell (1665-1701) was chaplain of the English Levant Company at Aleppo. At Easter 1697 he began a pilgrimage from here to Palestina and Lebanon. "The account contains the first description of Baalbek by an Englishman; both Baalbek and Palmyra seem to have been ignored by travellers before the end of the 17th century, and Maundrell provides accurate descriptions and illustrations of both" (Blackmer). Title in red and black. Ref. Cox I:219. - STCN (2). - Cp. Blackmer 1095 (English ed.), Atabey 784 (id.). - Not in BL. Prov. Servite Monastery of Rossau in Vienna (contemp. bookpl. & sm. engr. mark pasted on p. 1).

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