A collection of curious travels & voyages
Subtitle: in two tomes ...
By: by John Ray ...
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 545:12
Publisher: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford ...
Published: 1693
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Botany; Early works to 1800; Collections
Other titles: Stirpium orientalium.
Notes: Stirpium orientalium : Rariorum catalogi tres. (45 p. at end of work)

"The first containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's itinerary into the eastern countries, as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. from the observations of Mons. Belon, Mr. Vernon, Dr. Spon, Dr. Smith, Dr. Huntington, Mr. Greaves, Alpinus, Veslingius, Thevenot's Collections, and others. To which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant."

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