
Lot 93•
VERYARD (ELLIS) An Account of Divers Choice Remarks, as Well Geographical, as Historical, Political, Mathematical, Physical and Moral. Taken in a Journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and Part of Spain; with the Isles of Sicily and Malta. As also, a Voyage to the Levant, FIRST EDITION, S. Smith and B. Walford, 1701
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VERYARD (ELLIS)
An Account of Divers Choice Remarks, as Well Geographical, as Historical, Political, Mathematical, Physical and Moral. Taken in a Journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and Part of Spain; with the Isles of Sicily and Malta. As also, a Voyage to the Levant, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved plates, single ink smudge on title, a few light dampstains but generally clean, contemporary calf, rubbed, some loss to extremities of spine [Atabey 1285; Blackmer 1727; not in Cobham-Jeffery], small folio (320 x 200mm.), S. Smith and B. Walford, 1701
Footnotes
Scarce account of the author's travels, including in 1686 a voyage to the Levant where he visited Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt, Baalbek, Lebanon, Constantinople, Greece and the Ionian islands. Includes a section (pp.315-320) devoted to the practices and history of Islam.
Provenance: Thomas Overbury, ownership inscription dated 1702, with "Pret: 12s.". Besides a passage concerning foreign practices relating to sneezing an early reader has noted "England need not be excepted" in the margin; W. Wynne, eighteenth century armorial bookplate; by descent to present owner.