PERRY, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, London: T. Woodward, C. Davis & J. Shuckburgh, 1743, 2° (358 x 232mm.), FIRST EDITION, one engraved map, 32 engraved plates by G. Bickham junior on 20 leaves (occasional light offsetting to plates, text lightly spotted), contemporary calf (worn, recased). [Blackmer 1291; Lowndes V, 1835]

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PERRY, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, London: T. Woodward, C. Davis & J. Shuckburgh, 1743, 2° (358 x 232mm.), FIRST EDITION, one engraved map, 32 engraved plates by G. Bickham junior on 20 leaves (occasional light offsetting to plates, text lightly spotted), contemporary calf (worn, recased). [Blackmer 1291; Lowndes V, 1835]

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"Charles Perry (1698-1780), a physician by profession, travelled extensively between 1739 and 1742 in France, Italy, and the East, visiting Constantinople, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. Most of the plates of the present work illustrate Egyptian antiquities. He travelled up the Nile to Aswân providing the earliest description of the Temple of Isis at Behbit el-Hagar, and the frescos in the tombs of the Beni Hasan necropolis" (Blackmer).

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