Hasselquist Fr/Linnaeus Ch. .:”Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the years 1749,50,51,52” .London 1766

First and only edition in English. In 8vo 21x14cm,modern leather over boards, complete 456p. and the folded map of Eastern Mediterranean ,text clean, overall very good condition. Hasselquist travel account in the Levant had been published posthumously by Linnaeus in the original Swedish in 1757.Hasselquist visited Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, Rhodos and Chios, he died in Smyrna in 1752.According Blackmer, Hasselquist s  account is the first systematic natural history of the Levant. The English edition has a very rare originally drawn unsigned map of Eastern Mediterranean ,including Cyprus, which has not appeared in any other publication .Atabey 564 (this edition),Blackmer 792(French edition).Rare