STOCHOVE (Vincent). Voyage du Levant. Brussels, H. A. Velpius, 1650, small in-8, ivory vellum, smooth spine, spotted edges (contemporary binding). Second edition, revised and enlarged, of this interesting account of a voyage to the Ottoman Empire by Vincent Stochove (1605-1679), Lord of Sainte-Catherine, who was born and died in Bruges, where he was several times mayor. The first edition was published in Brussels in 1643 under the title Voyage du sieur de Stochove faict ès années 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633. This edition features a title-frontispiece and a portrait of the author after Jacob van Oost, both engraved by Wenceslas Hollar. A copy of the English traveller Sir Henry Blount (1602-1682), himself the author of a Voyage into the Levant, undertaken after Stochove's but published earlier, in 1636, in London, with a handwritten bookplate on the title. A very interesting association of two contemporary travellers. From the library of John Stuart, Earl of Bute, with armorial bookplate on verso of frontispiece. Hage Chahine, n°4653 - Sarga Moussa, "Constantinople dans Le Voyage du Levant (1650) de Stochove", Textyles, n°12, 1995, pp. 33-46.