12mo (145 x 87mm.), title with printer’s device, double-page woodcut view of Mt. Sinai, woodcuts in text, eighteenth-century sprinkled calf gilt, spine in compartments gilt, red morocco label, speckled edges, early ink annotations on front flyleaf, minor wormholes and dampstaining in lower margins, small loss to the foot of gatherings S to Z, hinges starting

Armorial bookplate, possibly Jan Baptiste Verdussen II (1659–1759); Constant-Phillipe Serrure (1805-1872), signature; Bibliotheca Tiliana, bookplate and stamps; Martinus Nijhoff, bookseller's ticket

cf. Blackmer 115 (1554 edition); Gay 10; Rohricht 678; Tobler, p.72; cf. Wilson, p.18

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Belon travelled in the Levant from 1546-1549 and wrote this important book which includes much on the antiquities, customs, manners and natural history of the regions visited. He was one of the first Europeans to visit and describe Baalbek and this work, of which there are several editions, "was the most documented account of the Levant which had appeared up to that time. Of importance is his description of Cairo after 30 years of Turkish occupation'' (Blackmer).