Hasselquist F.: Voyages dans le Levant dans les annees 1749, 50, 51, 52.Paris 1769 First edition in French.In 8vo,17x11cm,2 volumes in one, contemporary leather over boards, complete 260p.,201p.,some marginal worming in last pages, overall very good. Hasselquist,a Swedish botanist, travelled extensively in Greece and the Levant to investigate unexplored areas, as Palestine, Cyprus, Rhodes and Chios. According Blackmer this is the first systematic natural history of the Levant.He died in 1752 at Smyrna and his full account had been published first in Swedish in 1757 by Linaeus, his teacher in Stockholm.Blackmer 792 (this edition),Weber 532 (this edition), Atabey 564 (first English).