Early European account of coffee.- Rauwolf (Leonhard) Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender..., first edition, collation: )(⁴, )( )( ⁴, A-Z⁴, a-z⁴, Aa-Pp⁴, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, occasional light surface staining, very occasional light worming, mostly marginal and repaired, sometimes into text affecting a few words, occasional browning, heaviest to y1-4, spotting, mostly to margins, ink inscription and stamp to final f. verso, rear free endpaper corner clipped, ink inscription to front pastedown and rear free endpaper, 19th-century boards, red and blue labels to spine, spine ends chipped with loss, rubbed, some wear, [Mueller p.173; Hunt 146; Pritzel 7430; Wellcome I, 5347; VD16 R430], 4to (195 x 153 mm), [Lauingen], [Leonhard Reinmichel], 1582.

⁂ Rare first edition of this early travelogue of the Levant. Rauwolf was a German physician, botanist, and traveller, who was one of the first modern botanists to describe the flora of the Near East. Alongside Rauwolf's botanical explorations, this book includes one of the earliest European accounts of preparing and drinking coffee.