Spratt, Thomas Abel Bremage and Edward Forbes.

first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), lithographed frontispieces, and 7 plates after Spratt and Forbes, 3 engraved plates showing inscriptions and coins, one folding, 15 plans, 3 double-page, and one folding geological map, partly coloured by hand, 21 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, modern calf, spines in compartments with raised bands gilt, without half-titles, occasional light spotting, map with slight tears and creases

Blackmer 1589; Weber I, 404; Atabey 1173

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Lieutenant Spratt of the Mediterranean Hydrographical Survey and Professor Forbes of the Geological Survey travelled with the Rev. E.T. Daniell in HMS Beacon to Lycia intending to continue the work of Sir Charles Fellows and Captain Beaufort before them (see lot 11). The result was this, the first comprehensive archaeological and geological survey and description of the area.