DELAPORTE l’Abbe, “Le Voyageur Francois Ou La Connoissance De LAncien Et Du Nouveau Monde”, Paris, Vincent, 1765. Complete in two (2) small 8vo Volumes. Including the author’s “impressions” from Cyprus, Alep, Damascus, Palmyra, Egypt, Tunis-Algeria-Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Black Sea, Persia, Arabia. Joseph de La Porte, was an 18th-century French priest, poet and playwright. His compilation of world travels LE VOYAGEUR FRANÇAIS is a fiction based in real voyages. Although the author was never a traveler, he was considered an expert in travel literature with many historians citing him as a primary source! Although his text is of secondary or referential source, he blends information from various real travel works, and expresses the beliefs of the Europe for the Orient. Contemporary full leather, spines decorated in gilt. Heavy external rubbing and wear along extremities. Interior in fine condition mostly clean and tight.