* Reisen – Levante – Shaw, Thomas. – Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend. Nach der zweyten engländischen Ausgabe ins Deutsche übersezt.

First German edition a translation of the expanded second and best English edition of 1757. With maps of Algeria, Tunesia, Northern Egypt and Jerusalem. „Thomas Shaw, who travelled in North Africa, Egypt, the Sinai dessert, Palestine and Syria in the 1720ties, can in many respects be considered the precursor of later and enlightened writers on the Arab world, entitled Shaw to a place among the most abservant and reliable visitors to the east“ (Hamilton Europe and the Arab World p.40). „Has been praised by Dibdin and others. It is especially esteemed for its botanical and zoological plates, in additionto the information Shaw inparts on the antiquities, geology and geography of the aerea visited“ (Navari, Blackmer). – Very small collectors stamp on the lower part of the title-page, as always paper slightly browned; binding a bit rubbed, spine a bit faded. – Nissen ZBI 3840; Graesse V, 362.