Lot 183
  • 183

Sieber, Franz Wilhelm.

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Reise nach der Insel Kreta im griechischen Archipelagus im Jahre 1817. Leipzig und Sorau: Friedrich Fleischer, 1823
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (205 x 126mm.), 14 engraved plates and maps, 3 folding, volume 1 with additional title-page, directions to the binder leaf at end of volume 2, contemporary green half morocco, offsetting of text onto some plates or plates onto text, binding slightly rubbed, some loss to spine labels

Literature

Blackmer 1542 and Atabey 1131 (both English editions); Weber I, 126

Catalogue Note

Sieber spent two years in the Levant (1817-18), including one year in Crete collecting botanical specimens (a number of which are illustrated). The work was first published in Vienna in 1820 under the title Verzeichniss der in den Jahren 1817 und 1818 auf einer Reise durch Creta, Agypten und Palestina gesammelt.