Leyden, Neth.: Pieter Vander Aa, 1727. door verscheyde Gedeeltens van Asia en Africa, in het Jarr 1581, en vervolgens. Verhalende het gevangen nemen, mitsgaders de harde en Slaaffe Dienstbaarheyd des Schrijvers, onder het wreede Jok der Turken in Egypten, en hoe hy eyndelijk, na veele uytgestane ongemakken, in sijn vryheyd is hersteld. Als Mede een Beschrijving van verscheyde Eylande, Steeden, Zee-havens, Oudheeden van Eypten, Turkyen en het Heylige Land: ook de Gewoontens, Zeden en Straf-oeffeningen deser volkeren. Door den Reysiger selfs beschreeven. Met een volkoomen Register en Konst-Printen verrijkt. Te Leyden, by Pieter Vander Aa, Boekverkoper, [1727] [72] p., engraved title page vignette, 1 leaf of a copper-plate engraved folded map: 4 in-text engravings; 36 (14 inches). Signatures: A-I4. 4to. Modern grey and brown decorative paper over boards with a modern printed black-on-grey label on the front cover reproducing part of the title page as a smaller scale, within a double-ruled border. Text is in 130 number columns. From the series of travel accounts printed by Pieter vander Aa in 1727, De Aanmerkenswaardigste en Alomberoemde See- en Land-Reizen. The author, Michael Heberer (1560-1623/33?), has been called der pfälzishe Robinson, or Robinson Crusoe of the Palatinate, because of his unlucky sea voyages recounted here. The engraved map shows Heberer's route around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The other engravings depict a ship wreck, prisoners of the moors, the freeing of some prisoners in Alexandria, and the execution of others. Back cover of modern binding slightly soiled; otherwise in Fine Condition.. Fine.

Dublin: White, Byrne, W. Porter, Moore, Dornin, and Wm. Jones, 1793. Containing the Present Natural and Political State of Those Countries, Their Productions, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; With Observations on the Manners, Customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs. Translated from the French. 2 volumes in 1. xvi, 557, [17] p.; 21 cm. (8 inches). signatures: [pi]8 B-OO8. 8vo. 20th-century brown morocco spine with marbled boards; gilt-stamped spine title. Half title bears undated inscription: "Presented to the Belles Lettres Society by George Washington Harris of Harrisburgh Pa." This George Washington Harris (1798-1882) was the grandson of Harrisburg founder John Harris (1727-1791). The relationship between this former owner and the American humorist of the same name, born in 1814 in Allegheny City, Pa., is not known. In Very Good+ Condition: a short inscription has been erased at the head of the title page; scattered light foxing; soiling of a few pages.. Very Good+.