Volume 1

Voyages and travels in the Levant; in the years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing observations in natural history, physick, agriculture, and commerce: particularly on the Holy Land, and the natural history of the Scriptures / Written originally in the Swedish language. By the late Frederick Hasselquist ... Published ... by Charles Linnaeus. [With 'Some account of Dr. H., written by C. Linnaeus'].

  • Hasselquist, Fredrik, 1722-1752.
Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Voyages and travels in the Levant; in the years 1749, 50, 51, 52. Containing observations in natural history, physick, agriculture, and commerce: particularly on the Holy Land, and the natural history of the Scriptures / Written originally in the Swedish language. By the late Frederick Hasselquist ... Published ... by Charles Linnaeus. [With 'Some account of Dr. H., written by C. Linnaeus']. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. A Few Copies of Dri Gace 8 ‘Travels into the Holy-Land, &c. in the Swedith Language, having found their. W ays into this Kingdom, Application was made . to an ingenious Gentleman, who had lived . fome Time in Sweden, to tranflate them into Englifh. An Opportunity of furnifhing — thesLearned of this Country with fo curious a Work, was not difpleafing to One, who had | beeri well acquainted with the Merits and . ‘Abilities of the Author, being himfelf a Pu- - pil of the celebrated Dr. Linnzus. He ac- cordingly undertook, and before his Depar- ture from London finifhed, the following Tranflation ; which indeed fuffers in point of © Stile, from the Tranflator’s not’ being a Native of England, and from his adhering too clofely to the Idiom of the Swedith Language: but it is hoped that when the candid Reader confiders the great Difficulty of finding a Per- fon (ufficiently verfed in Natural Hiftory, and ‘the Swedifh Language, and at the fame time willing to undertake fuch a Tafk, he will rather forgive Imperfections, than with to have deprived the Republic of Letters of fo ER ae an Acquifition, |