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Leake, William Martin.
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Travels in Northern Greece. London: J. Rodwell, 1835
first edition, 4 volumes, 8vo (220 x 130mm.), 10 engraved maps and plans, some folding, 44 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations in text, directions to the binder leaf and errata leaf in volume 4, modern tan half morocco
Provenance
A.C. Lascarides; G.J. Arvanitidi; Pericles Hantzis, book labels
Literature
Blackmer 975; Weber I, 233; Atabey 692
Catalogue Note
A good copy with a fine multiple-owner provenance. "An account of four journeys (not consecutive) carried out from December, 1804, to January, 1810, covering Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Boeotia, in fact all of mainland Greece except for Attica. Volume 1 includes a biography of Ali Pasha... An important and valuable work" (Blackmer).