157 - [TRAVEL]. ROGER (Eugène).

[TRAVEL]. ROGER (Eugène). The Holy Land, or A Very Detailed Topographical Description of the Holy Places and the Promised Land. With a Treatise on the Fourteen Nations of Different Religions that Inhabit It, Their Customs, Beliefs, Ceremonies, and Governance. A Discourse on the Main Points of the Quran, and What the Imams Preach to Them in the Mosques. The History of the Life and Death of Emir Fechrreddin, Prince of the Druze. And a True Account of Zaga-Christ, Prince of Ethiopia, who died in Ruel near Paris in the year 1638. Paris: Antoine Bertier, 1664. Small quarto, grained calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). [XVIII (of XX)] + 498 + [XXX (Table)] pp. Second edition following that of 1646. 38 engravings (views, maps, and costumes), most full-page, including a map on a folded leaf. Caps and corners worn; half-title page missing; tear on the map, restored with no loss; a few small foxing spots, including a more significant one on pp. 212–217; handwritten bookplate redacted on the title page. “An interesting and very rare work.” (Chadenat, 964); Hage-Chahine, 4108; Atabey 1051.