A collection of curious travels & voyages
Subtitle: in two tomes ...
By: by John Ray ...
Contributors: Rauwolf, Leonhard, ca. 1540-1596.; Staphorst, Nicolaus, 1679-1731.; Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 545:12.
Publisher: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford ...
Published: 1693
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Voyages and travels.; Botany -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Stirpium orientalium; 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."

Reproduction of original in Bristol Public Library, Bristol, England.

Wing R385

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1975. 1 microfilm reel : 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 545:12)