Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

225 c   BLOUNT, HENRY, Sir. A Voyage into the Levant. [2],126 pages.4to,182x140 mm, contemporary sheep, spine chipped at top and cracked and chipped at bottom, with later crude lettering in ink; lower portion of contents dampstained throughout, scattered ink blots including one obscuring text in lower outer corner of page 124, later underscoring and marginalia. Contemporary signatures of Thomas Hippisley on title and IzaakWalton (probably not the author) across woodcut headpiece on page 1; signature of Wm. Hawkins dated 1682 and 19th-century signatures of Henry Alworth Merewether andVito Morpurgo on front endleaves. London: J. L. for Andrew Crooke, 1638 [800/1,200] Third edition of a 1636 work describing the author’s travels to the Balkans, Constantinople, and Egypt in 1634. STC 3138. 225 224