Relation d'un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du Roy: contenant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs isles de l'Archipel, de Constantinople, de côtes de la Mer Noire, de l'Arménie, de la Géorgie, des frontières de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure ... ; enrichie de descriptions ... d'un grand nombre des plantes rares, de divers animaux et de plusieurs observations touchant l'histoire naturelle
Relation d'un voyage du Levant is a 1717 French travelogue by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, written for the king and recording his Levant journey through the Aegean, Constantinople, Armenia and Persia's borders, with natural history. Its pictures are engraved plates: botanical studies of plants with fine hatched leaves and roots, and small full-length costume figures of local people set against flat landscape backgrounds, offering a designer clean line-drawn botanicals and period costume references.
