TOURNEFORT Joseph Pitton de, “Relation d’un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy, contenant l’histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs isles de l’Archipel, de Constantinople, des cotes de la Mer Noire, de l’Armenie, de la Georgie, des frontieres de Perse & de l’ Asie Mineure”, Lyon, Anisson ey Posuel, 1717. FIRST EDITION, in 2 volumes. 8vo, pp.[20], 379, + [4], 448. With 91 in total (of 152) full page engraved plates (Vol.I: 51 plates & Vol.II: 40 plates) depicting landscape & town views, costumes, antiquities, plants. Pitton de Tournefort was sent on a mission to the Levant by Louis XIV in 1700. His work is considered as one of the most important accounts of travels in the East. Contemporary ununiformed binding: full leather, spine decorated in gilt, second volume rebacked & restored, external wear & rubbing, Fine condition inside.