Belon, P. Plurimarum singularium et memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Iudaea, Arabia,

aliisque exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes, tribus libris expressae. Carolus Clusius Atrebas è Gallicis Latinas faciebat. Antw., "Ex officina Christophori Pantini, Architypographi Regii", 1589.(16),495 p., w. woodcut printer's mark on title-p., w. 43 woodcut ills. (7x full-p.), contemp. overlapping vellum. With cancel stamps of the Bibl. Regia Berolinensi in the approbation. First free endpaper loosening and w. old annots. in pen, old owner's entries "E. Guhr" (on title) and "C. Guhr" (on upper pastedown), a few lvs waterst., back cover stained. The first Latin translation by Carolus Clusius (first published in French, 1555).

Voet 639 (extensively on the relation between the ills. of the 1555 and this edition); Nissen, ZBI 305; Machiels M-236. Labore et Constantia 127: "The work contains observations about geography, fauna, plants, mines, agriculture, religions, the life of inhabitants, monuments and archaeological descriptions such as the city of Troy, the pyramids or the mummies." The woodcuts mainly depicting plants and animals, but also a map of Turkey and a view of Alexandria. Pierre Belon du Mans (1517-1564) was an early French explorer, naturalist, writer and diplomat. This work describes his ethnographic, botanical and zoological findings, collected during travels between 1546-49, through Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and Judea.