Copper engraving on sheet, mm 230x180, plate mm 104x155, by Jean Appier Hanzelet taken from «Relation journaliere du voyage du levant faict & descrit…» The engraving inserted in the French text, concerns the island of Zante and on verso the Gulf of Lepanto. Beauvau’s 1605 expedition through Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine and Egypt, is one of the most substantially illustrated French travelogues of the first half of the 17th century relating to the Near East. Of special note is Beauvau’s use of cartographic illustration suggestive of the Italian isolarios of the period: the 49 maps and views of Aegean islands, etc., engraved in the manner of Cantelli and Camocio. Henri de Beauvau, a soldier and diplomat, fought the Turks in Hungary first in the service of Emperor Rudolph III, and then under the elector of Bavaria. He embarked upon this journey in 1605, regarding it as a diplomatic venture rather than a pilgrimage. Good copy that has original stitching holes on the inner margin, slight traces of marginal oxide and some spots.