A Voyage into the Levant: Perform'd by the Command of the late French King. Containing The Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; as also Constantinople, the Coasts. of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor.  By M. Tournefort.

London:  D.  Midwinter, R. Ware, C. Rivington, A. Wald, J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman, R. Hett, C. Hitch, S. Austen, J. Wood and C. Woodward, J. and H. Pemberton. 1741.

Text block measures 8 x 5 inches.

Originally written in French, this is the English translation.

Full leather.  Bookplate of Horatio Nelson Fisher.

Volumes 1 and 3 of a 3 volume set. Volume 2 is missing.  Volume 1 has li, 335 pages;  volume 3 has 364 pages plus table.

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was a French botanist.  These books give his account of a trip into the eastern Mediterranean, Greek islands, Black Sea region, Armenia, and Georgia, describing plants, geography, and people.

There are many plates in each volume, primarily depicting plants, but some are of the people and geography. Volume 1 has 50 numbered plates; volume 3 has plates numbered from 91 to 152. Some are folding.

About good condition: wear to covers; joints cracked; each cover of volume 1 holding by 2 out of 3 cords; front cover of volume 3 is holding by 2 out of 3 cords; title page of volume 3 is detached; interior is clean and crisp.