Leonhard. Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam &c. nicht ohne g

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One of the earliest Descriptions of the Preparation and Consumption of Coffee RAUWOLF, Leonhard. Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam c. nicht ohne geringe mühe und grosse gefahr selbs volbracht: neben vermeldung vil anderer seltzamer und denckwürdiger sachen die alle er auff solcher erkundundiget, gesehen und obseruiert hat. Alles in drey vnderschidliche Thail mit sonderem fleiß abgethailet und ein jeder weiter in seine sonderbare Capitel wie dero innhalt in zu end gesetztem Register zufinden. [Colophon:] Lauingen; Leonhard Reinmichel . 1582. Small 4to. Early 19th-century German marbled boards with two contrasting gilt-stamped lettering-pieces; pp. [xvi], 487, main title printed in red and black and with woodcut illustration, two sectional titles each with woodcut illustrations; light wear to extremities, internally only a little spotted, one gathering browned, a few traces of worming to the last leaves, a few 19th-century marginal restorations; a good copy of a great rarity; provenance : 1830s bibliographical annotations in ink to endpapers; upper outer corner of rear endpaper cut away, Cyrillic collectors stamp, dated 1861 on blank verso of the last leaf. First edition, very rare, of this early travelogue of the Levant by Leonhard Rauwolf (1535-1596), a medical doctor well versed in Arabic, natural history and pharmacological texts who ha

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