[ARVIEUX, Laurent d'.] Voyage dans la Palestine, vers le Grand Emir, Chef des Princes Arabes du Desert, connus sous le nom de Bedouïns, ou d'Arabes Scenites, que se disent la vraïe posterité d'Ismaël fils d'Abraham. Fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV. Avec la Description General de l'Arabie, faite par le Sultan Ismael Abulfeda, traduite en François sur les meilleurs manuscrits, avec des notes. Par M. de la Roque. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwerf, 1718.
12mo. Contemporary full speckled calf, boards with blind-ruled borders, gilt-ruled board-edges, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, marbled endpapers, red edges, green silk marker; pp. [46 (title, verso blank, dedicatory epistle, 'Avertissement', contents and approbation, publisher's catalogue)], 342, [6 (table of Arabian cities and table of contents)]; engraved additional title by and after J. Wandelaar, 3 engraved plates by Wandelaar, one engraved folding plate of Mount Carmel, title printed in red and black and with wood-engraved publisher's device, wood-engraved and type-ornament headpieces, wood-engraved initials; extremities slightly rubbed, some light browning, traces of bookplate inside front covernonetheless a very good copy.
Pirated Amsterdam edition, following the first and second editions of 1717 and 1718 issued in Paris. This work, based on d'Arvieux's manuscript, was edited by Jean de La Roque (1661-1745), who had made several voyages to the Levant himself. D'Arvieux (1635-1702) lived in the Levant at Seyde from 1653 to 1665 and later settled in Constantinople; in 1679 he was appointed consul at Aleppo, where he remained until his retirement in 1686 to Marseilles. This work gives a detailed account of the religion, customs, diversions, etc. of the Bedouins, and includes the description of d'Arvieux's mission to Mount Carmel in 1664. Also included is a general description of Arabia by Sultan Ishmael Abulfeda (1273-1331), which first appeared in French in this work. Abu'l-Fidāʼ, Sultan of Ḥamāh wasa Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.
Röhricht 1112; for the 1st ed., cf. Atabey 38; Blackmer 50; see Warren Hamilton Lewis, Levantine Adventurer: The Travels and Missions of the Chevalier D'Arvieux, 1653-1697 (1963)..
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