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Crouch, Nathaniel (born c. 1632) Two Journeys to Jerusalem.
London: Printed for Nath. Crouch, 1683.
12mo, engraved title page, illustrated with 3 additional full-page engravings; bound in full speckled modern sheepskin, antique style; final 3 leaves with Crouch's catalogue of available titles present; (some toning, small water stain and slight marginal worming at the beginning of the work); 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.
Wing T-1276; ESTC R27539; uncommon at auction; three copies in U.S. libraries: William Andrews Clark, Newberry & Harvard.
Printer and editor Crouch, who usually published under the pseudonym Robert or Richard Burton, aka RB, here compiles narratives of trips to the Holy Land by various authors. He includes Henry Timberlake's narrative, along with one by Samuel Breet, and an excerpt from John Evelyn's "History of the Three Late Famous Imposters." Crouch adds some original material of his own, "A Journey to Jerusalem," and "The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen."
