Lot 118
  • 118

Laurent, Peter Edmund.

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • Recollections of a Classical Tour through various parts of Greece, Turkey, and Italy, made in the years 1818 & 1819. London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1821
first edition, 4to (265 x 200mm.), 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one facsimile, modern speckled calf 'antique style', red morocco label, library stamp on verso of title (see provenance)

Provenance

King's Inn Library, Dublin, old stamp on verso of title

Literature

Blackmer 959; Abbey, Travel 204; Droulia 98; Weber I, 103; Atabey 680

Catalogue Note

Starting from Venice, Laurent visited Chios, Constantinople, Athens, the Peloponnese, and Corfu. The appendix consists of the Constitution of the Ionian Islands. The work is uncommon, having only appeared once in English auctions in thirty years, apart from the Blackmer and Atabey copies.