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An Easter Pilgrimage Illustrated — 15 Plates, 9 Folding

Maundrell, Henry. A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697. The sixth edition, to which is now added an account of the author's journey to the banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the country of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre for A. Peifley, 1740. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). [12], 171, [1 (blank)] pp.; 15 plts. (9 fold.).
$440.00

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• Sixth edition, with a new index and with 15 plates, nine folding, depicting temples and other sights. The author served as chaplain to the Company of Levant Merchants factory in Aleppo from 1696 until his death in 1701; this account of his visits to Jerusalem was often reprinted and became one of the best-known contemporary travelogues.

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Get Cured or Get Clean
YOU Choose: “Druggs” or Soap

Pomet, Pierre. A compleat history of druggs, written in French by Monsieur Pomet ... To which is added, what is further observable on the same subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort ... Illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts ... Done into English from the originals. London: Pr. for R. & J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin; John Walthoe & Tho. Ward,, 1725. 4to (22.5 cm; 9"). xii, 419, [1] pp., [4] ff.; 86 plts.
$3250.00

Histoire générale des drogues

materia medica

86 etched plates

Americana content

• Wellcome Catalogue, IV, 412; Graesse, Trésor de Livres rares, V, 398; Alden & Landis 725/158; not in Sabin; ESTC T111989; Pritzel 7258n; Junersforgg & Hasenkamp, Coffee, 1177– 1179. Recent full calf antique-style with gilt concentric panels on covers and gilt corner devices on same; round spine with raised bands, each accented by gilt rules. Some plates closely trimmed at foremargin. A very pleasing copy. (21774)

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