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Deshayes, Louis (1600-1632) Voiage de Levant Fait par le Commandement du Roy en l'annee 1621.
Paris: Chez Adrian Taupinart, 1624.
First edition, quarto, engraved title page; illustrated with text engravings, 4 double-page plates, 2 full page, and one large folding map of Jerusalem; nicely preserved in limp parchment (ties renewed; occasional water stains); 9 1/4 x 7 in.
Louis XIII sent Deshayes to the Levant in 1621. He traveled through Vienna and Hungary, and thence to Constantinople and then Jerusalem, where he served the king. His observations on the Ottoman Empire are valuable.
