Lot 254
  • 254

Wheler, Sir George.

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • A Journey into Greece. London: Printed for William Cademan [&c.], 1682
first edition, folio (294 x 184mm.), folding engraved map and 7 plates, comprising: 4 of coins, and 3 half-plates of illustrations (occasionally found on one sheet), many other engraved illustrations in the text, occasional early manuscript reader's notes and corrections to the text (according to the list of errata) by N. Hillier, eighteenth-century calf, flat spine gilt, preliminary free endpaper detached, neatly rebacked, extremities rubbed

Provenance

ex libris Charles Hornby, note on title, library sold 10-21 December 1739; N. Hillier, inscription on title, collated by him and with his marginal notes; Theod. H. Broadhead, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate

Literature

Atabey 1328; Blackmer 1786; Weber II 413; Wing W1607