Walpole, Robert.

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

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Description

Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, edited from manuscript journals. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817

first edition, 4to (274 x 206mm.), aquatint vignette on title and page 603, engraved map and 3 plans, 10 plates (mainly etched or aquatint), of which 6 are double-page, errata slip at beginning, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, occasional spotting, binding slightly rubbed, joints slightly split

Provenance

J.W. Middleton Berry, bookplate; Robert J. Hayhurst, book label

Literature

Blackmer 1762; Cobham-Jeffery p.64; Contominas 781 (second edition, 1818); Weber I, 60 (second edition); Atabey 1310

Catalogue Note

Robert Walpole (1781-1856) travelled in Greece some time between 1803 and 1808. "His plan to publish his own journals and notes together with those of likeminded people resulted in this important work which contains information which appeared nowhere else. The contributors include J.B.S. Morritt, Sibthorp, [J.D.] Carlyle and Philip Hunt on Mt. Athos, Aberdeen, John Hawkins and others" (Blackmer). Besides Greece and Turkey, the work includes articles relating to Cyprus and Egypt.