HASSELQUIST

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE LEVANT;

IN THE YEARS 1749, 50, 51, 52.

CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSIQUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE

Written originally in the Swedish Language

by the late Frederıck HASSELQUIST

London, 1766

Hasselquist’s collections of natural-history specimens were acquired by Queen Lovisa Ulrika and incorporated into the Drottningholm Collections after his death in Smyrna in 1752, at the age of only 30. The work is one of the first descriptions of the natural history of Palestine and was translated into German in 1766, French in 1768 and 1769 and Dutch in 1771. According to a foreword the work has been translated by a “gentleman” who is not English by birth and has spent time in Sweden as a disciple of Linnaeus. On p. 297 the anonymous translator mentions a letter from Linnaeus to John Ellis.