This is the rating and price for [ Books ] Perry, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. London:for T Woodward, C. Davis & J. Shuckburgh, 1743 First Edition, folio 356 x 226mm, 20 engraved plates by C. Bickham jun., 7 double- page,

Description : [ Books ] Perry, Charles. A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. London:for T Woodward, C. Davis & J. Shuckburgh, 1743 First Edition, folio 356 x 226mm, 20 engraved plates by C. Bickham jun., 7 double- page, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt, skilfully rebacked, some light spotting and browning Charles Perry (1698-1780 , a physician, travelled extensively between 1739 and 1742 in France, Italy and the East, visiting Constantinople, Egypt, Palestine and Greece. Most of the plates illustrate Egyptian antiquities. he travelled up the Nile to Aswain providing the earliest description of the Temple of Isis at Behbit el-Hagar, and the frescos in the tombs of the Beni Hasan necropolis. References: Atabey 940; Blackmer 129 1; Weber 11 523
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